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?

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

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

Chorus

Refrain

Hook

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?

one

six

five

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

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

Erotic

Pastoral

Spiritual

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

Pablo Neruda

Dylan Thomas

Maggie Smith

Elizabeth Bishop
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"

Emily Dickinson

Theodore Roethke

Langston Hughes

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

Victor Hugo

Voltaire
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Repetitive
12 How does a villanelle end?

With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of both refrains
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 freedom and variety of travel

The banal nature of parenting

The cycles of the natural world

The repeated routines of learning a new skill
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?

England

Mexico

The United States

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

Madness

Trust

Femininity

Aging
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

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one

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

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"

Dactylic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter

Spondaic dimeter

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

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's line breaks

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

Puntuated

Dead-end

End-stopped

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

Disrupted

Hanging

Ajar

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

Stanza

Soliloquy

Grouping

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?

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Lose something every day.

I lost my mother's watch.

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

The final stanza

They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

The first stanza

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