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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

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

3. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

4. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. To whom is the parenthetical comment "(Write it!)" addressed in line 19, and how does this comment impact the reader's understanding of the poem?

2. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?

3. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?

4. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?

5. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?

6. Describe the form of "One Art."

7. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?

8. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?

9. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?

10. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?

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