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?

Conclusion

Hook

Refrain

Chorus
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?

The first and second

Only the fifth

The first and third

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

six

twelve

one

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABAB ABAC BB

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?"

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?

Jean Passerat

Victor Hugo

Michel de Montaigne

Voltaire
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Unstructured

Epic

Repetitive

Rhyme-heavy
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 makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?

The cycles of the natural world

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The freedom and variety of travel

The banal nature of parenting
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?

England

France

The United States

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

Aging

Femininity

Trust

Madness
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

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one

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

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

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 pattern of spaces

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

Conclusive

End-stopped

Dead-end

Puntuated
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

Soliloquy

Grouping

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

Sonnet

Sestina

Villanelle

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

Lose something every day.

I lost my mother's watch.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

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 penultimate stanza

The first stanza

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