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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 wedding ring.
(b) Their mother's watch.
(c) Their college diploma.
(d) Their child's artwork.

2. 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.

3. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
(a) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.
(b) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.
(c) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.
(d) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.

4. 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) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

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

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. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

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

(see the answer key)

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