Exercise 1 page 22

1. figurative

2. sound

3. rhythm

4. assonance

5. narrative

6. lyric

ONE ART by Elizabeth Bishop

Exercise 1

Considering the title, the poem might be about a type of art.

Exercise 2

There are five stanzas of three ines each, while the last stanza is made of 4 lines.

Exercise 3

Words are not difficult even if there are words that I do not know like fluster. However, the text requires careful reading.

Exercise 4

I felt sad because while I was reading I rembered who or what I lost in the past.

Exercise 6

The rhyme scheme in the first five stanzas that are tercets is ABA, but in the last one that is a quatrain is ABAA.

The speaker adressses a “you” who is not the reader but the person she/he has lost.

Exercise 7

The text is about various types of loss and feelings connected to them.

Exercise 8

1. stanza 3

2. stanza 2

3. stanza 1

4. stanza 6

5. stanza 4

6. stanza 5

Exercise 9

1. stanzas

2. lines

3. rhyme scheme

4. you

5. loss

6. one

7. disaster