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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 the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(c) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(d) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.

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

3. 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"?
(a) Things.
(b) Intent.
(c) Many.
(d) Lost.

4. How many lines does "One Art" have?
(a) 18.
(b) 19.
(c) 20.
(d) 17.

5. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
(a) Second person and imperative mood.
(b) Second person and indicative mood.
(c) First person and imperative mood.
(d) First person and indicative mood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

4. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

5. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

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