One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
19

14

12

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?
Refrain

Hook

Chorus

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

Only the fifth

The first and third

The first and second
5 How many stanzas are in a villanelle?
one

six

twelve

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABAB ABAC BB

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

Instructional

Erotic

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Dylan Thomas

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

Theodore Roethke

Emily Dickinson

Langston Hughes
10 Who wrote the poem that is considered by scholars to be the first iteration of the modern villanelle form?
Michel de Montaigne

Victor Hugo

Jean Passerat

Voltaire
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Epic

Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy

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

With the repetition of the first refrain

With the repetition of both refrains

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 makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme
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?
France

Mexico

The United States

England
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?"
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?"
Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's line breaks

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's rhythmic structure

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

Dead-end

Conclusive

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

Disrupted

Hanging

Ajar
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

Novel

Sonnet
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

Lose something every day.

I lost my mother's watch.
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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