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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) Personification.
(b) Hyperbole.
(c) Simile.
(d) Imagery.

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

3. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?
(a) The word "loved."
(b) The word "went."
(c) The word "next."
(d) The word "look."

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?

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

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

4. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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