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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "One Art" lines 1-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It has an extra line.
(b) Every line is endstopped.
(c) It is written in free verse.
(d) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.

3. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 6.
(b) 7.
(c) 9.
(d) 8.

4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
(a) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.
(b) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.
(c) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.
(d) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.

5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Confused agitation.
(b) Tiring inconvenience.
(c) Humorous coincidence.
(d) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

3. What is the format of "One Art"?

4. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?

5. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?

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