One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
14

19

20

12
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Couplets and quatrains

Tercets and quatrains

Tercets and couplets

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

Conclusion

Refrain

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

The first and third

The first and second

Only the first
5 How many stanzas are in a villanelle?
six

twelve

one

five
6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle?
ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABAB ABAC BB
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?
Spiritual

Pastoral

Instructional

Erotic
8 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"
Maggie Smith

Elizabeth Bishop

Dylan Thomas

Pablo Neruda
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"
Theodore Roethke

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

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

Voltaire

Victor Hugo

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Epic

Repetitive

Rhyme-heavy

Unstructured
12 How does a villanelle end?
With the repetition of both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With a line that combines 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 freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

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

England

France

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

Madness

Trust

Femininity
17 What best describes the conflict of Dylan Thomas's villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"
A mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child

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

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic dimeter

Trochaic trimeter
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?
End-stopped

Conclusive

Puntuated

Dead-end
21 Which word describes a line of poetry that ends in the middle of a phrase or sentence?
Ajar

Hanging

Enjambed

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

Stanza

Grouping

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

Novel

Sonnet

Sestina
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
I lost my mother's watch.

Lose something every day.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
The first stanza

The penultimate stanza

The final stanza

They're all the same length

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