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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. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
2. What is the format of "One Art"?
3. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
4. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
2. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
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 are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
6. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
7. Describe the form of "One Art."
8. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
9. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
10. 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?
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 verb mood in "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 rhyme scheme of "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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