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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 does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?
(a) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(b) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(c) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(d) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
2. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Indicative.
(b) Interrogative.
(c) Imperative.
(d) Subjunctive.
3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Iamb.
(b) Trochee.
(c) Spondee.
(d) Dibrach.
4. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Understatement.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Apostrophe.
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 an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(d) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
Short Answer Questions
1. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
2. What "Art" does the title refer to?
3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
4. 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"?
5. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
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