One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
12

19

20

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

Couplets and quintains

Couplets and quatrains

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

Refrain

Conclusion

Chorus
4 Which line or lines of a villanelle are repeated throughout the poem?
Only the first

Only the fifth

The first and third

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

five

one

six
6 Which best describes the rhyme scheme of a villanelle?
ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?
Spiritual

Erotic

Instructional

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

Dylan Thomas

Pablo Neruda

Elizabeth Bishop
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"
Theodore Roethke

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes
10 Who wrote the poem that is considered by scholars to be the first iteration of the modern villanelle form?
Voltaire

Victor Hugo

Michel de Montaigne

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Rhyme-heavy

Unstructured

Repetitive

Epic
12 How does a villanelle end?
With a line that combines both refrains

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With the repetition of both refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?
Bishop adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

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 cycles of the natural world

The freedom and variety of travel

The banal nature of parenting
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?"
Madness

Femininity

Trust

Aging
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 sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one

A mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"
Iambic pentameter

Trochaic trimeter

Spondaic dimeter

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

A poem's pattern of spaces

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?
End-stopped

Dead-end

Puntuated

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

Disrupted

Ajar

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

Soliloquy

Paragraph

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

Novel

Villanelle

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

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Lose something every day.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.
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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