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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. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Sentence fragments.
(b) Modifying phrases.
(c) Parenthetical expressions.
(d) Coordinating conjunctions.

2. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Tribrach.
(b) Dactyl.
(c) Amphibrach.
(d) Anapest.

3. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 1.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

4. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Apostrophe.

5. In lines 2 and 3, "so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster," what is the antecedent of the word "their"?
(a) Intent.
(b) Things.
(c) Lost.
(d) Many.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many lines does "One Art" have?

2. Who is the author of "One Art"?

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

4. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

5. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

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