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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 the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
2. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
3. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?
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. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
2. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
3. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
4. 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?
5. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
6. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
7. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
8. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
9. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
10. Describe the form of "One Art."
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 meter 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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