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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. 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 part of a distant past.
(c) They are difficult to live with.
(d) They seem to want to get lost.

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

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) Tribrach.
(b) Anapest.
(c) Dactyl.
(d) Amphibrach.

4. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?
(a) AAB.
(b) AAA.
(c) ABB.
(d) ABA.

5. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) It has an extra line.
(b) Every line is endstopped.
(c) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.
(d) It is written in free verse.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?

2. What "Art" does the title refer to?

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

4. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?

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"?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Describe the form of "One Art."

6. 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?

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

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

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

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

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