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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. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 19.
(b) 18.
(c) 17.
(d) 20.

2. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(b) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(c) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(d) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

2. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

3. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

4. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

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

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