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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 is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Tribrach.
(b) Anapest.
(c) Dactyl.
(d) Amphibrach.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

2. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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

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

5. 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"?

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

4. 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?

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

6. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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