1 How many lines does a villanelle contain? 14 20 12 19 2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use? Couplets and quintains Tercets and quatrains Tercets and couplets Couplets and quatrains 3 Which word is used to refer to the repeating lines in a villanelle? Chorus Hook Refrain Conclusion 4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem? Only the first The first and third Only the fifth The first and second 5 How many stanzas are in a villanelle? twelve one six five 6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle? ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC ABAB ABAC BB ABA BAB ABA BAB 7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles? Erotic Spiritual Instructional Pastoral 8 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?" Pablo Neruda Elizabeth Bishop Maggie Smith Dylan Thomas 9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?" Emily Dickinson Theodore Roethke Sylvia Plath 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 Rhyme-heavy Unstructured Repetitive 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 the first refrain With the repetition of both refrains 13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle? Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem Bishop chooses not to use rhyme 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 cycles of the natural world The freedom and variety of travel 15 Where did villanelles likely originate? The United States England Mexico France 16 What best describes the theme of Sylvia Plath's villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?" Aging Trust Femininity Madness 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 futilely addressing a dying loved one A mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them 18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?" Iambic pentameter Trochaic trimeter Spondaic dimeter Dactylic hexameter 19 What does the term "meter" refer to? A poem's line breaks A poem's rhythmic structure A poem's length and appearance on the page 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? Disrupted Ajar Hanging Enjambed 22 What is the word for a grouped set of lines in a poem? Soliloquy Paragraph Stanza Grouping 23 Which of the following is not a type of poetic form? Villanelle Sonnet Sestina Novel 24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain? Lose something every day. I lost two cities, lovely ones. The art of losing isn't hard to master. I lost my mother's watch. 25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest? The penultimate stanza The final stanza They're all the same length The first stanza
