One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
20

14

12

19
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Couplets and quintains

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quatrains

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

Refrain

Hook

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

The first and second

Only the first

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

twelve

five

six
6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle?
ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC
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?"
Dylan Thomas

Maggie Smith

Pablo Neruda

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

Sylvia Plath

Emily Dickinson

Theodore Roethke
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?
Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Repetitive

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

With a line that combines both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the 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 repeated routines of learning a new skill

The banal nature of parenting

The cycles of the natural world

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

The United States

England

France
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 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?"
Iambic pentameter

Spondaic dimeter

Dactylic hexameter

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

A poem's line breaks

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's pattern of spaces
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?
Puntuated

Conclusive

End-stopped

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

Disrupted

Ajar

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

Paragraph

Stanza

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

Sestina

Novel

Sonnet
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
I lost two cities, lovely ones.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost my mother's watch.

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

The penultimate stanza

They're all the same length

The first stanza

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