One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?

12

20

14

19
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

Tercets and couplets

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

Conclusion

Chorus

Refrain

Hook
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?

Only the first

The first and third

The first and second

Only the fifth
5 How many stanzas are in a villanelle?

one

six

five

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

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABAB ABAC BB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?

Spiritual

Instructional

Pastoral

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Pablo Neruda

Maggie Smith

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

Theodore Roethke

Emily Dickinson

Langston Hughes

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

Victor Hugo

Voltaire

Michel de Montaigne

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Epic

Repetitive

Unstructured

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 both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?

The banal nature of parenting

The freedom and variety of travel

The cycles of the natural world

The repeated routines of learning a new skill
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?

France

The United States

England

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

Trust

Aging

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 mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one

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

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic dimeter

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 rhythmic structure

A poem's pattern of spaces
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?

Disrupted

Enjambed

Hanging

Ajar
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?

Sonnet

Novel

Sestina

Villanelle
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost my mother's watch.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

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

The penultimate stanza

The final stanza

They're all the same length

The first stanza

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