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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Conquering loss.
(b) Ignoring loss.
(c) Accepting loss.
(d) Grieving loss.

6. 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) Intent.
(b) Many.
(c) Lost.
(d) Things.

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

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

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

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

11. What "Art" does the title refer to?
(a) The art of maintaining relationships.
(b) The art of maintaining perspective.
(c) The art of mastering loss.
(d) The art of disciplining the emotions.

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

13. 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 seem to want to get lost.
(c) They are small and insignificant.
(d) They are part of a distant past.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?

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

5. How many lines does "One Art" have?

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