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?
Couplets and quintains

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quatrains

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

Hook

Refrain

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

Only the fifth

Only the first

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

one

five

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

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABAB ABAC BB
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

Dylan Thomas

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

Langston Hughes

Emily Dickinson

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

Victor Hugo

Michel de Montaigne
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Unstructured

Rhyme-heavy

Epic

Repetitive
12 How does a villanelle end?
With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of both refrains

With the repetition of the first refrain

With a line that combines both refrains
13 How does Elizabeth Bishop's "One Art" diverge from the traditional villanelle?
Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

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 cycles of the natural world

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The banal nature of parenting

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

Mexico

England

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

Trust

Femininity

Aging
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

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
18 Which meter, common in villanelles, is used in "One Art?"
Trochaic trimeter

Iambic pentameter

Spondaic dimeter

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

A poem's rhythmic structure

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's pattern of spaces
20 Which word describes a poetry whose end coincides with the end of a sentence?
End-stopped

Puntuated

Dead-end

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?
Paragraph

Grouping

Stanza

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

Villanelle

Sonnet

Sestina
24 Which line from "One Art" is a refrain?
Lose something every day.

I lost two cities, lovely ones.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost my mother's watch.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
They're all the same length

The final stanza

The first stanza

The penultimate stanza

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