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

2. 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) Imagery.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
(a) They are small and insignificant.
(b) They are difficult to live with.
(c) They seem to want to get lost.
(d) They are part of a distant past.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

3. How many lines does "One Art" have?

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

5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

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