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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. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their child's artwork.
(b) Their college diploma.
(c) Their mother's watch.
(d) Their wedding ring.

2. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Livid.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Sanguine.
(d) Ebullient.

3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are small and insignificant.
(b) They seem to want to get lost.
(c) They are part of a distant past.
(d) They are difficult to live with.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

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

(see the answer key)

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