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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. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) Second person and indicative mood.
(b) First person and imperative mood.
(c) First person and indicative mood.
(d) Second person and imperative mood.
2. 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?
(a) The word "next."
(b) The word "loved."
(c) The word "look."
(d) The word "went."
3. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.
(b) Every line is endstopped.
(c) It is written in free verse.
(d) It has an extra line.
4. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(b) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(c) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(d) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
5. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?
(a) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(b) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(c) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(d) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
2. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
3. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
4. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
5. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
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