2. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?
(a) Simile.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Personification.
(d) Hyperbole.

3. What is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?
(a) Tribrach.
(b) Dactyl.
(c) Anapest.
(d) Amphibrach.

4. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?
(a) Stanza three extends the small, everyday losses in stanza two into more serious and personal territory.
(b) Stanza three exposes the inherent contradictions in the ideas about loss advanced by stanza two.
(c) Stanza three repeats the emotional plea of stanza two in a more logical and rational form.
(d) Stanza three provides hyperbolic examples of the effects of loss proposed in stanza two.

5. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?
(a) Every line is endstopped.
(b) It has an extra line.
(c) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.
(d) It is written in free verse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a reasonable statement to make about the effect of the enjambment in lines 8 and 9, "places, and names, and where it was you meant/ to travel"?

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

3. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?

4. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?

5. 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?

(see the answer key)

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