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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "One Art" lines 1-19.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
(a) Perfect rhyme.
(b) Eye rhyme.
(c) Internal rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

2. What does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?
(a) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(b) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(c) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."
(d) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.

3. In line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," rhythm is created through which devices?
(a) Cacophony, epizeuxis, and diazeugma.
(b) Anaphora, assonance, and asyndeton.
(c) Alliteration, epistrophe, and antithesis.
(d) Parallelism, diacope, and consonance.

4. What does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?
(a) Conquering loss.
(b) Ignoring loss.
(c) Accepting loss.
(d) Grieving loss.

5. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 4.
(b) 2.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is the rhyme scheme of the first five stanzas of "One Art"?

3. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?

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 is the most reasonable interpretation of the speaker's line 13 claim that they have "lost two cities"?

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