One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
20

19

12

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

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quintains

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

Hook

Conclusion

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

The first and second

The first and third

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

six

one

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

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABAB ABAC BB

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

Spiritual

Pastoral

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

Pablo Neruda

Dylan Thomas

Maggie Smith
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"
Langston Hughes

Theodore Roethke

Sylvia Plath

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

Voltaire

Michel de Montaigne

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy

Repetitive

Epic
12 How does a villanelle end?
With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of both refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?
Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout 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 freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The banal nature of parenting

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

France

England

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 futilely addressing a dying loved one

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
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"
Spondaic dimeter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter
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

Conclusive

Dead-end

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

Enjambed

Hanging

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

Soliloquy

Grouping

Stanza
23 Which of the following is not a type of poetic form?
Novel

Sonnet

Villanelle

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

Lose something every day.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

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

The penultimate stanza

They're all the same length

The final stanza

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