One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?

19

14

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?

Hook

Conclusion

Chorus

Refrain
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?

six

twelve

one

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

ABAB ABAC BB

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

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

Erotic

Pastoral

Instructional

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Maggie Smith

Dylan Thomas

Pablo Neruda
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"

Langston Hughes

Emily Dickinson

Sylvia Plath

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

Michel de Montaigne

Voltaire

Victor Hugo

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Epic

Unstructured

Repetitive

Rhyme-heavy
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 both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain
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 cycles of the natural world

The freedom and variety of travel

The banal nature of parenting

The repeated routines of learning a new skill
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?

Mexico

France

The United States

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

Madness

Femininity

Aging

Trust
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 futilely addressing a dying loved one

Someone is sarcastically warning a lover not to visit them

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

A poem's pattern of spaces

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

End-stopped

Conclusive

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

Hanging

Enjambed

Ajar

Disrupted
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?

Novel

Sestina

Villanelle

Sonnet
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?

I lost my mother's watch.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

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

The penultimate stanza

The first stanza

The final stanza

They're all the same length

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