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

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

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

4. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
(a) The speaker is not welcome in either city.
(b) The speaker no longer lives in either city.
(c) The speaker cannot find either city.
(d) The speaker is no longer interested in either city.

5. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Amphibrach.
(b) Tribrach.
(c) Dactyl.
(d) Anapest.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. 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"?

5. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

(see the answer key)

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