One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
19

20

14

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

Couplets and quintains

Couplets and quatrains

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

Chorus

Hook

Refrain
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?
Only the fifth

Only the first

The first and third

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

five

six

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

ABAB ABAC BB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA BAB ABA BAB
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?
Spiritual

Erotic

Pastoral

Instructional
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?"
Theodore Roethke

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

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

Michel de Montaigne

Victor Hugo
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Repetitive

Unstructured

Epic

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

With the repetition of both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With a line that combines both refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?
Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop adds an extra tercet to 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 repeated routines of learning a new skill

The cycles of the natural world

The banal nature of parenting

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

The United States

France

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

Femininity

Aging

Trust
17 What best describes the conflict of Dylan Thomas's villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"
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

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

Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

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

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's line breaks
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?
Enjambed

Disrupted

Ajar

Hanging
22 What is the word for a grouped set of lines in a poem?
Stanza

Soliloquy

Paragraph

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

Villanelle

Novel

Sonnet
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
Lose something every day.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost my mother's watch.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
The final stanza

The first stanza

They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

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