View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
(a) Their child's artwork.
(b) Their mother's watch.
(c) Their wedding ring.
(d) Their college diploma.

3. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
(a) Sudden, uncoordinated movement.
(b) Tiring inconvenience.
(c) Confused agitation.
(d) Humorous coincidence.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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"?

4. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "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?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 381 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample