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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 is written in free verse.
(b) Every line is endstopped.
(c) It has an extra line.
(d) It reverses the rhyme pattern of the previous stanzas.

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

4. 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.

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?
(a) Places and names are examples of things a person can only lose through "practice" and experience.
(b) Places and names are some of the last things that a person loses.
(c) Places and names are more upsetting to lose than small objects and small amounts of time.
(d) Places and names are examples of things that can be lost "farther" and "faster."

Short Answer Questions

1. The relationship between stanza two and stanza three is most accurately expressed by which of the following?

2. 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"?

3. How many lines does "One Art" have?

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

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

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