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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 a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(b) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(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. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) ABA.
(b) AAB.
(c) ABB.
(d) AAA.

3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Iamb.
(b) Dibrach.
(c) Trochee.
(d) Spondee.

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

5. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Ebullient.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Livid.
(d) Sanguine.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

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