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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. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
3. How many stanzas does "One Art" have?
4. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
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 are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
2. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
3. Describe the form of "One Art."
4. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
5. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
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. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
8. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
9. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
10. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Bishop's "One Art" is considered to be an excellent example of the villanelle form--not because of her perfect adherence to the "rules" of the villanelle, but because the form is ideally suited to the messages she is trying to convey. Write an essay that explicates the poem's structure and shows why it is ideally suited to the poem's meaning.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about irony 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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