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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 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 an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(b) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(c) It creates the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(d) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.

2. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Imagery.

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

4. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) AAA.
(b) AAB.
(c) ABB.
(d) ABA.

5. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

4. What is the format of "One Art"?

5. 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?

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