One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
12

20

19

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

Couplets and quintains

Tercets and couplets

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

Refrain

Conclusion

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

The first and second

Only the first

The first and third
5 How many stanzas are in a villanelle?
twelve

six

one

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

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

Maggie Smith

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

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes

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

Victor Hugo

Jean Passerat

Michel de Montaigne
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Rhyme-heavy

Repetitive

Epic

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 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 cycles of the natural world

The freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The banal nature of parenting
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?"
Femininity

Madness

Trust

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 sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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

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

Spondaic dimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's line breaks

A poem's pattern of spaces
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?
Conclusive

Dead-end

Puntuated

End-stopped
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

Grouping

Paragraph

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

Sestina

Sonnet

Novel
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
I lost two cities, lovely ones.

I lost my mother's watch.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Lose something every day.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

The final stanza

The first stanza

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