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

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

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

4. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Internal rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) Perfect rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

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

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 meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

3. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

4. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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