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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. What "Art" does the title refer to?

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

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that explicates the poem's final stanza. Take a clear position about the stanza's relationship to the rest of the poem and show how the techniques you discuss in your explication support that relationship.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the title of "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 3

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

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