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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. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
2. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
3. In the first stanza, what does the speaker suggest makes the loss of some things especially easy to accept?
4. Who is the author of "One Art"?
5. 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"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
2. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
3. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
4. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
5. Describe the form of "One Art."
6. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
7. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
8. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
9. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
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 diction in "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
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
Do some more reading about Bishop's life, and then write an essay in which you demonstrate how understanding information from her biography clarifies some puzzling aspect of "One Art." You should clearly identify which element of the poem is puzzling--and why--before explaining how the author's biography might function as a key to unlock the mystery. Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text, and cite your sources in MLA format.
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