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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) Every line is endstopped.
(d) It is written in free verse.

2. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
(a) Parenthetical expressions.
(b) Sentence fragments.
(c) Modifying phrases.
(d) Coordinating conjunctions.

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

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

5. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?
(a) 1.
(b) 2.
(c) 4.
(d) 3.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which word in lines 10 and 11, "And look! my last,/ or next-to-last, of three loved houses went," creates a momentary shift in verb mood?

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 does the second stanza suggest the "art" of losing consists of?

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

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