One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?

19

12

14

20
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?

Couplets and quintains

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quatrains

Tercets 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?

The first and second

The first and third

Only the fifth

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

one

five

twelve

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

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?

Instructional

Spiritual

Erotic

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Maggie Smith

Pablo Neruda

Dylan Thomas
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"

Emily Dickinson

Theodore Roethke

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes
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?

Unstructured

Repetitive

Rhyme-heavy

Epic
12 How does a villanelle end?

With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

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 cycles of the natural world

The freedom and variety of travel
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?"

Madness

Trust

Aging

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 mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child

A soldier is preparing to go into a likely-fatal battle
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"

Dactylic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

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

A poem's line breaks

A poem's pattern of spaces

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?

Puntuated

End-stopped

Conclusive

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

Hanging

Disrupted

Ajar

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

Paragraph

Stanza

Grouping

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

Villanelle

Novel

Sestina

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

I lost my mother's watch.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

Lose something every day.

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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