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

Couplets and quintains

Couplets and quatrains

Tercets and couplets
3 Which word is used to refer to the repeating lines in a villanelle?

Refrain

Conclusion

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?

twelve

six

five

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

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC
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?"

Pablo Neruda

Elizabeth Bishop

Dylan Thomas

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

Sylvia Plath

Theodore Roethke

Emily Dickinson

Langston Hughes
10 Who wrote the poem that is considered by scholars to be the first iteration of the modern villanelle form?

Victor Hugo

Jean Passerat

Voltaire

Michel de Montaigne
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Unstructured

Repetitive
12 How does a villanelle end?

With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With the repetition of both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

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

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The banal nature of parenting

The freedom and variety of travel

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

France

Mexico

England

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

Madness

Femininity

Aging

Trust
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?"

Trochaic trimeter

Spondaic dimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's line breaks

A poem's pattern of spaces
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?

End-stopped

Conclusive

Dead-end

Puntuated
21 Which word describes a line of poetry that ends in the middle of a phrase or sentence?

Enjambed

Ajar

Hanging

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

Stanza

Grouping

Soliloquy

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

Sonnet

Sestina

Novel

Villanelle
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

Lose something every day.

I lost my mother's watch.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?

The final stanza

The first stanza

They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

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