One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
14

19

12

20
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Couplets and quatrains

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

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

Hook

Refrain

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

Only the first

Only the fifth

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

twelve

six

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

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABAB ABAC BB
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?"
Dylan Thomas

Elizabeth Bishop

Pablo Neruda

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

Sylvia Plath

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

Jean Passerat

Voltaire

Victor Hugo
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Repetitive
12 How does a villanelle end?
With the repetition of both refrains

With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?
Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop adds an extra tercet to 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 freedom and variety of travel

The cycles of the natural world
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?
The United States

England

France

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

Trust

Femininity

Madness
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

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

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

A mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child
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 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?
Puntuated

End-stopped

Conclusive

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

Hanging

Enjambed

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

Paragraph

Grouping

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

Novel

Villanelle

Sestina
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
I lost my mother's watch.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

Lose something every day.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
The final stanza

The first stanza

They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

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