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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What kind of metrical foot is the most frequent in "One Art"?
2. What "Art" does the title refer to?
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 does the colon at the end of line 7, "Then practice losing farther, losing faster," indicate about the "places, and names" in line 8?
5. What is the meaning of the word "fluster" in line 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
2. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
3. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
4. To whom is the parenthetical comment "(Write it!)" addressed in line 19, and how does this comment impact the reader's understanding of the poem?
5. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
6. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
7. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
8. Describe the form of "One Art."
9. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
10. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that explicates the musicality of "One Art." Be sure to explain how the devices you name and explain create meaning within the context of the text as a whole. Support your claims with quoted evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about irony in "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the parenthetical instruction "Write it!" in the poem's final line. Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
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