One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
14

20

19

12
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

Refrain

Chorus

Hook
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?
six

five

twelve

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

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

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

Pastoral

Spiritual

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Dylan Thomas

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

Sylvia Plath

Theodore Roethke

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

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 makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?
The cycles of the natural world

The banal nature of parenting

The freedom and variety of travel

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

The United States

Mexico

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

Femininity

Trust

Madness
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

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

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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

Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

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

A poem's rhythmic structure

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

Dead-end

End-stopped
21 Which word describes a line of poetry that ends in the middle of a phrase or sentence?
Disrupted

Enjambed

Ajar

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

Paragraph

Stanza

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

Sestina

Novel

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

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

Lose something every day.

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

The first stanza

The penultimate stanza

They're all the same length

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