One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
14

19

20

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

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quintains

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

Hook

Conclusion

Chorus
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?
five

one

six

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

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA BAB ABA BAB

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

Instructional

Spiritual

Erotic
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?"
Emily Dickinson

Langston Hughes

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

Michel de Montaigne

Victor Hugo
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Repetitive

Epic

Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy
12 How does a villanelle end?
With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain
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 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 freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The cycles of the natural world

The banal nature of parenting
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?
England

The United States

Mexico

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

Trust

Femininity

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

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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

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

Dactylic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter

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

A poem's line breaks

A poem's rhythmic structure

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

Dead-end

End-stopped

Conclusive
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

Stanza

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

Sonnet

Villanelle

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

I lost my mother's watch.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

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

They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

The final stanza

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