One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
20

12

14

19
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Tercets and quatrains

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quintains

Couplets and quatrains
3 Which word is used to refer to the repeating lines in a villanelle?
Conclusion

Refrain

Chorus

Hook
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?
Only the fifth

The first and second

Only the first

The first and third
5 How many stanzas are in a villanelle?
five

twelve

six

one
6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle?
ABAB ABAC BB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA BAB ABA BAB
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?
Erotic

Spiritual

Pastoral

Instructional
8 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"
Elizabeth Bishop

Dylan Thomas

Pablo Neruda

Maggie Smith
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"
Langston Hughes

Emily Dickinson

Theodore Roethke

Sylvia Plath
10 Who wrote the poem that is considered by scholars to be the first iteration of the modern villanelle form?
Michel de Montaigne

Voltaire

Jean Passerat

Victor Hugo
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Unstructured

Repetitive

Rhyme-heavy

Epic
12 How does a villanelle end?
With a line that combines both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?
Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?
The banal nature of parenting

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The freedom and variety of travel

The cycles of the natural world
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?
France

England

Mexico

The United States
16 What best describes the theme of Sylvia Plath's villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"
Trust

Madness

Femininity

Aging
17 What best describes the conflict of Dylan Thomas's villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"
A soldier is preparing to go into a likely-fatal battle

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

A mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"
Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's line breaks

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's rhythmic structure
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?
Dead-end

Puntuated

Conclusive

End-stopped
21 Which word describes a line of poetry that ends in the middle of a phrase or sentence?
Disrupted

Hanging

Enjambed

Ajar
22 What is the word for a grouped set of lines in a poem?
Paragraph

Stanza

Soliloquy

Grouping
23 Which of the following is not a type of poetic form?
Sonnet

Novel

Sestina

Villanelle
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
I lost two cities, lovely ones.

I lost my mother's watch.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Lose something every day.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
The penultimate stanza

They're all the same length

The final stanza

The first stanza

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