One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?

20

19

14

12
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quintains

Tercets and couplets

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

Conclusion

Chorus

Hook

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

The first and third

Only the fifth

The first and second

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

six

five

twelve

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

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABAB ABAC BB

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

Spiritual

Instructional

Erotic

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

Pablo Neruda

Dylan Thomas

Elizabeth Bishop

Maggie Smith
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?

Victor Hugo

Jean Passerat

Voltaire

Michel de Montaigne
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy

Repetitive

Epic
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 adds an extra tercet to the poem

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?

The banal nature of parenting

The cycles of the natural world

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The freedom and variety of travel
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?

England

Mexico

France

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

Madness

Trust

Aging

Femininity
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?"

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's line breaks
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?

End-stopped

Conclusive

Puntuated

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

Stanza

Soliloquy

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

Novel

Villanelle

Sestina

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

I lost my mother's watch.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

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

The penultimate stanza

The first stanza

They're all the same length

The final stanza

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