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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. Who is the author of "One Art"?
2. What is used for the first time in the poem's final stanza?
3. Lines 4 and 6, ending in the words "fluster" and "master," exhibit what type of rhyme?
4. In line 10, what does the speaker admit to having lost?
5. What is the verb mood of line 4, "Lose something every day"?
Short Essay Questions
1. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?
2. Describe the form of "One Art."
3. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?
4. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?
5. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?
6. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?
7. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?
8. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?
9. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?
10. 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?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that analyzes whether Bishop is the speaker of "One Art." Be sure to acknowledge arguments on both sides of this question before you ultimately make your case for one side or the other. Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the use of refrains in "One Art." Support your argument with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the text.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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