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?
Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

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

Refrain

Conclusion

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

Only the fifth

The first and second

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

one

five

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA BAB ABA BAB

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

Instructional

Pastoral

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

Pablo Neruda

Dylan Thomas

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

Sylvia Plath

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

Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Unstructured
12 How does a villanelle end?
With the repetition of the first refrain

With a line that combines both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of both 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 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 freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

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?"
Femininity

Aging

Madness

Trust
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?"
Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's line breaks

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

Dead-end

Puntuated

Conclusive
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?
Stanza

Grouping

Soliloquy

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

Novel

Sonnet

Sestina
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 first stanza

The penultimate stanza

They're all the same length

The final stanza

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