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?

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

Couplets and quatrains

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

Conclusion

Hook

Chorus

Refrain
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

six

twelve

one
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?

Instructional

Erotic

Pastoral

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

Pablo Neruda

Maggie Smith

Dylan Thomas

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

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes

Theodore Roethke

Emily Dickinson
10 Who wrote the poem that is considered by scholars to be the first iteration of the modern villanelle form?

Jean Passerat

Voltaire

Victor Hugo

Michel de Montaigne
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Repetitive

Epic

Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy
12 How does a villanelle end?

With the repetition of the first refrain

With the repetition of both refrains

With a line that combines both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?

The freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The banal nature of parenting

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?"

Aging

Trust

Madness

Femininity
17 What best describes the conflict of Dylan Thomas's villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's line breaks

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?

Conclusive

Puntuated

End-stopped

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

Ajar

Disrupted

Enjambed

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

Soliloquy

Grouping

Stanza

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

Novel

Sonnet

Villanelle

Sestina
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 first stanza

The penultimate stanza

The final stanza

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