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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 is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Livid.
(b) Sanguine.
(c) Ebullient.
(d) Bewildered.

2. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their child's artwork.
(b) Their mother's watch.
(c) Their college diploma.
(d) Their wedding ring.

3. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
(a) 9.
(b) 8.
(c) 6.
(d) 7.

4. 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) Imagery.
(c) Simile.
(d) Personification.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?

3. Who is the author of "One Art"?

4. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

5. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10. Describe the form of "One Art."

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