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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 "Art" does the title refer to?

2. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?

3. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?

4. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

5. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?

2. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?

3. Describe the form of "One Art."

4. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?

5. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?

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. 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?

9. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?

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

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 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 makes and defends a claim about the use of point-of-view in "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.

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