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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Imagery.
(d) Personification.

2. 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?
(a) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(b) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(c) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(d) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.

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

4. Who is the author of "One Art"?
(a) Sylvia Plath.
(b) Audre Lourde.
(c) Lucille Clifton.
(d) Elizabeth Bishop.

5. What is the format of "One Art"?
(a) Sestina.
(b) Sonnet.
(c) Ballad.
(d) Villanelle.

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

7. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Subjunctive.
(b) Indicative.
(c) Imperative.
(d) Interrogative.

8. 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) Dactyl.
(c) Tribrach.
(d) Anapest.

9. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Humorous coincidence.
(b) Confused agitation.
(c) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(d) Tiring inconvenience.

10. 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 the sense of something being missing or lost because the thought is interrupted by enjambment.
(b) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.
(c) It creates an angry, agitated tone because of the isolation of the word "meant," which ends with a harsh sound.
(d) It creates irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.

11. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 6.
(b) 8.
(c) 9.
(d) 7.

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

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

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

15. 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 difficult to live with.
(d) They are small and insignificant.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

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