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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) Personification.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Hyperbole.

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

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(b) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(c) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.
(d) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

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

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

4. 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?

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

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