One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
19

12

20

14
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Tercets and couplets

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quatrains

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

Hook

Chorus

Conclusion
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?
Only the first

The first and third

Only the fifth

The first and second
5 How many stanzas are in a villanelle?
five

twelve

one

six
6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle?
ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA BAB ABA BAB

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

Instructional

Erotic

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?"
Langston Hughes

Emily Dickinson

Theodore Roethke

Sylvia Plath
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

Rhyme-heavy

Unstructured
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 neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?
The banal nature of parenting

The cycles of the natural world

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

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

England

France

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

Trust

Aging

Madness
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

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

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's line breaks

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's pattern of spaces

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

End-stopped

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?
Grouping

Soliloquy

Stanza

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

Villanelle

Sestina

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

Lose something every day.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost my mother's watch.
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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