One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?

12

19

14

20
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?

Couplets and quintains

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quatrains

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

Hook

Chorus

Refrain

Conclusion
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?

The first and second

The first and third

Only the fifth

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

one

five

six

twelve
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?

Pastoral

Erotic

Spiritual

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

Dylan Thomas

Pablo Neruda

Elizabeth Bishop

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?

Jean Passerat

Michel de Montaigne

Voltaire

Victor Hugo
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Epic

Repetitive

Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy
12 How does a villanelle end?

With the repetition of both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With a line that combines both refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

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 freedom and variety of travel

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?"

Femininity

Madness

Trust

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 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?"

Dactylic hexameter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Spondaic dimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's length and appearance on the page

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

Dead-end

Conclusive

Puntuated

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

Disrupted

Ajar

Enjambed

Hanging
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?

Villanelle

Sonnet

Novel

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

Lose something every day.

I lost my mother's watch.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?

They're all the same length

The final stanza

The first stanza

The penultimate stanza

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