One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
12

19

20

14
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Couplets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

Tercets and couplets

Tercets and quatrains
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

one

six

five
6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle?
ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?
Instructional

Pastoral

Erotic

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

Dylan Thomas

Maggie Smith

Pablo Neruda
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?
Voltaire

Jean Passerat

Victor Hugo

Michel de Montaigne
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Epic

Unstructured

Repetitive

Rhyme-heavy
12 How does a villanelle end?
With the repetition of the first refrain

With a line that combines both refrains

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 makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?
The banal nature of parenting

The cycles of the natural world

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The freedom and variety of travel
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?
France

England

The United States

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

Aging

Madness

Femininity
17 What best describes the conflict of Dylan Thomas's villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"
Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

A soldier is preparing to go into a likely-fatal battle

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

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's line breaks

A poem's length and appearance on the page

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

Dead-end

End-stopped

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

Hanging

Ajar

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

Grouping

Stanza

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

Sonnet

Novel

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

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost my mother's watch.

Lose something every day.
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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