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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. In lines 2 and 3, "so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster," what is the antecedent of the word "their"?

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

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

4. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

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

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

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

5. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the rhyme scheme of "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the meter of "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that explicates the musicality of "One Art." Be sure to explain how the devices you name and explain create meaning within the context of the text as a whole. Support your claims with quoted evidence from the text.

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