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?
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?
Chorus

Conclusion

Hook

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

The first and third

Only the first

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

twelve

six

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

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA BAB ABA BAB
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

Pablo Neruda

Elizabeth Bishop

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

Langston Hughes

Sylvia Plath

Theodore Roethke
10 Who wrote the poem that is considered by scholars to be the first iteration of the modern villanelle form?
Jean Passerat

Victor Hugo

Voltaire

Michel de Montaigne
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Unstructured

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

With the repetition of the first refrain

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 chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

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 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

France

The United States

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

Aging

Femininity

Trust
17 What best describes the conflict of Dylan Thomas's villanelle "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night?"
Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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
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 pattern of spaces

A poem's rhythmic structure

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

Dead-end

Puntuated

Conclusive
21 Which word describes a line of poetry that ends in the middle of a phrase or sentence?
Ajar

Enjambed

Hanging

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

Stanza

Paragraph

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

Novel

Villanelle

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?
They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

The final stanza

The first stanza

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