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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. 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.

6. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their wedding ring.
(b) Their college diploma.
(c) Their child's artwork.
(d) Their mother's watch.

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

8. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) ABB.
(b) AAA.
(c) ABA.
(d) AAB.

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

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

11. 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.

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

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

14. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are difficult to live with.
(b) They are small and insignificant.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are part of a distant past.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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?

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

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

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

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