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

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

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

4. 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 a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(d) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.

5. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They seem to want to get lost.
(b) They are part of a distant past.
(c) They are small and insignificant.
(d) They are difficult to live with.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?

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

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

4. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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

(see the answer key)

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