One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
14

20

12

19
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quatrains

Tercets and couplets

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

Conclusion

Chorus

Refrain
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?
five

one

six

twelve
6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle?
ABAB ABAC BB

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

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

Pastoral

Instructional

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

Pablo Neruda

Dylan Thomas

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

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

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

Michel de Montaigne

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Rhyme-heavy

Unstructured

Repetitive

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

With the repetition of both 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 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 repeated routines of learning a new skill

The freedom and variety of travel

The cycles of the natural world

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

France

Mexico

The United States
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?"
A mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child

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

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
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 pattern of spaces

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?
Hanging

Ajar

Enjambed

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

Sestina
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 first stanza

The penultimate stanza

The final stanza

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