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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 is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?
2. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
3. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
4. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
5. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the form of "One Art."
2. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
3. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
4. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
5. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
6. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
7. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
8. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
9. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
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 logical flow of ideas 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 diction in "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the parenthetical instruction "Write it!" in the poem's final line. Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
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