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

2. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Modifying phrases.
(b) Sentence fragments.
(c) Coordinating conjunctions.
(d) Parenthetical expressions.

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Lucille Clifton.
(b) Sylvia Plath.
(c) Elizabeth Bishop.
(d) Audre Lourde.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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"?

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

4. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

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

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