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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 technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?
(a) Sarcasm.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Dramatic irony.
(d) Understatement.

2. 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 small and insignificant.
(c) They are difficult to live with.
(d) They are part of a distant past.

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

4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
(a) They create a choppy sound that indicates anger.
(b) They create a rolling rhythm that invokes the light, carefree tone of a nursery rhyme.
(c) They accelerate the pace as the stanza unfolds, creating a sense of urgency.
(d) They slow its pace and create a sense of uncertainty.

5. 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) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(d) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?

4. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

5. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?

(see the answer key)

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