One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
20

12

19

14
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Couplets and quatrains

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

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

Hook

Chorus

Refrain
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?
The first and third

The first and second

Only the fifth

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

twelve

one

five
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?
Pastoral

Erotic

Spiritual

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

Pablo Neruda

Elizabeth Bishop

Dylan Thomas
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

Michel de Montaigne

Voltaire
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Repetitive
12 How does a villanelle end?
With the repetition of the first refrain

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With a line that combines both refrains

With the repetition of both refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?
Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?
The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The banal nature of parenting

The cycles of the natural world

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?"
Trust

Aging

Madness

Femininity
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 sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

A soldier is preparing to go into a likely-fatal battle

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"
Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter

Trochaic trimeter

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

A poem's line breaks

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's rhythmic structure
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?
Dead-end

Conclusive

End-stopped

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

Hanging

Disrupted

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

Stanza

Paragraph

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

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 final stanza

They're all the same length

The penultimate stanza

The first stanza

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