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

2. 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) Every line is endstopped.
(d) It is written in free verse.

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

4. 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 irony because the thought's completion on line 9 is actually the opposite of what the speaker means.
(d) It creates a humorous effect because the words that complete the thought on line 9 are unexpected.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?

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

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

5. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

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

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

4. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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