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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 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 examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(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 some of the last things that a person loses.

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

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

4. 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.

5. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
(a) Iamb.
(b) Dibrach.
(c) Spondee.
(d) Trochee.

Short Answer Questions

1. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?

2. What technique is employed in line 16, "Even losing you"?

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

4. Which is a reasonable statement of how the punctuation and syntax of the final stanza affect the stanza's tone?

5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?

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