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

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

3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?

4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

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

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

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

5. 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?

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

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

8. Describe the form of "One Art."

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

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

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 use of point-of-view in "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes Bishop's use of linebreak in "One Art." Provide quoted examples, explain their effect, and connect these effects to the poem's overall meaning.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that analyzes the significance of two of the objects Bishop lists as items that may be--or have been--lost. Consider whether the items have a figurative significance, how they relate to one another, and how they support the poem's overall meaning. Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.

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