One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?

20

19

14

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?

Chorus

Conclusion

Hook

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

Only the fifth

The first and second

The first and third

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

six

five

twelve

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABAB ABAC BB
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?

Instructional

Pastoral

Spiritual

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Dylan Thomas

Maggie Smith

Pablo Neruda
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?

Unstructured

Repetitive

Epic

Rhyme-heavy
12 How does a villanelle end?

With the repetition of both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the 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 neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?

The banal nature of parenting

The freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The cycles of the natural world
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?

England

Mexico

France

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

Trust

Femininity

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

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
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's line breaks

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

End-stopped

Puntuated

Conclusive

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

Ajar

Hanging

Disrupted

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

Paragraph

Grouping

Soliloquy

Stanza
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 two cities, lovely ones.

I lost my mother's watch.

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

The first stanza

The final stanza

The penultimate stanza

They're all the same length

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