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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 is the name of the metrical foot that appears at the end of lines 1 and 3 in most of the stanzas?

2. How many refrains does "One Art" contain?

3. Stanzas four through six have which techniques in common?

4. What is different about the final stanza of "One Art"?

5. Which technique is used in the speaker's claim to have lost "some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent" (line 14)?

Short Essay Questions

1. What difference is there in the way the two refrain lines are repeated throughout the poem?

2. On the surface level, what is the main message of "One Art"?

3. Describe the form of "One Art."

4. What are the refrains employed in "One Art"?

5. 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?

6. What is the poem's dominant meter, and how is it regularly interrupted?

7. How does the speaker's diction increase the emotional stakes as the poem progresses?

8. How does the speaker arrange the examples of things that can be lost?

9. How does the change in stanza structure in the final stanza mimic the poem's changing meaning?

10. Which two verb moods are used in "One Art," and where are they employed?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that explicates the poem's final stanza. Take a clear position about the stanza's relationship to the rest of the poem and show how the techniques you discuss in your explication support that relationship.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that analyzes the significance of the title of "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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