One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
14

19

20

12
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Tercets and couplets

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

Couplets and quatrains
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?
The first and third

The first and second

Only the fifth

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

five

six

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABA BAB ABA BAB
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?"
Pablo Neruda

Elizabeth Bishop

Maggie Smith

Dylan Thomas
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"
Sylvia Plath

Emily Dickinson

Langston Hughes

Theodore Roethke
10 Who wrote the poem that is considered by scholars to be the first iteration of the modern villanelle form?
Michel de Montaigne

Victor Hugo

Voltaire

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Unstructured

Repetitive

Epic

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

With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

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 chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem
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 banal nature of parenting

The freedom and variety of travel
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?
England

The United States

Mexico

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

Aging

Trust

Femininity
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

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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

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

Spondaic dimeter

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's line breaks

A poem's length and appearance on the page
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?
End-stopped

Conclusive

Puntuated

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

Enjambed

Disrupted

Ajar
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?
Villanelle

Novel

Sestina

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

Lose something every day.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
The final stanza

They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

The first stanza

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