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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. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
2. 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"?
3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
4. What is the format of "One Art"?
5. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
Short Essay Questions
1. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
2. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
3. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
4. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
5. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
6. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
7. Describe the form of "One Art."
8. 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?
9. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
10. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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 2
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 3
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.
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