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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 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"?
2. In lines 2 and 3, "so many things seem filled with the intent/ to be lost that their loss is no disaster," what is the antecedent of the word "their"?
3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
4. What is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?
5. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
Short Essay Questions
1. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
2. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
3. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
4. Describe the form of "One Art."
5. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
6. 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?
7. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
8. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
9. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
10. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
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 rhyme scheme of "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that affirms, refutes, or qualifies the following statement: "Elizabeth Bishop's poem 'One Art' fails to convey emotion due to a lack of imagery and strongly connotative diction."
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the logical flow of ideas in "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
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