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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) Grieving loss.
(c) Ignoring loss.
(d) Conquering loss.

2. 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?
(a) The word "loved."
(b) The word "look."
(c) The word "next."
(d) The word "went."

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

4. 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.

5. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Socks.
(b) Keys.
(c) Pens.
(d) Glasses.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

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

4. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

5. What is the format of "One Art"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. 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?

10. Describe the form of "One Art."

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