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

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

3. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
(a) Indicative.
(b) Subjunctive.
(c) Imperative.
(d) Interrogative.

4. What does the speaker use in line 5 as an example of a common lost object?
(a) Pens.
(b) Socks.
(c) Glasses.
(d) Keys.

5. Which is the best description of the tone of stanza one?
(a) Sanguine.
(b) Bewildered.
(c) Livid.
(d) Ebullient.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the author of "One Art"?

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

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

4. What is the format of "One Art"?

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?

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