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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. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
2. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
4. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
5. Who is the author of "One Art"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
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 change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
5. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
6. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
7. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
8. Describe the form of "One Art."
9. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
10. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
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
Bishop's "One Art" is considered to be an excellent example of the villanelle form--not because of her perfect adherence to the "rules" of the villanelle, but because the form is ideally suited to the messages she is trying to convey. Write an essay that explicates the poem's structure and shows why it is ideally suited to the poem's meaning.
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