3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Eye rhyme.
(b) Perfect rhyme.
(c) Internal rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

4. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It is written in free verse.
(b) It has an extra line.
(c) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.
(d) Every line is endstopped.

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

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

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

8. 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) Personification.
(d) Imagery.

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

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

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

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

13. 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"?
(a) Things.
(b) Intent.
(c) Many.
(d) Lost.

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

15. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(b) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.
(c) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(d) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.

Short Answer 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"?

2. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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