One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?

14

20

19

12
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?

Tercets and quatrains

Tercets and couplets

Couplets and quatrains

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

Refrain

Conclusion

Chorus

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

Only the first

The first and second

The first and third

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

one

five

twelve

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

ABA BAB ABA BAB

ABCB ACBC ABAA ABC

ABA ABA ABA ABA ABA ABAA

ABAB ABAC BB
7 Which best describes the typical subject matter of early villanelles?

Pastoral

Erotic

Instructional

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

Elizabeth Bishop

Pablo Neruda

Maggie Smith

Dylan Thomas
9 Who wrote the famous villanelle "Mad Girl's Love Song?"

Theodore Roethke

Sylvia Plath

Langston Hughes

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

Michel de Montaigne

Voltaire

Jean Passerat

Victor Hugo
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?

Unstructured

Epic

Rhyme-heavy

Repetitive
12 How does a villanelle end?

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

With the repetition of both refrains

With a line that combines both 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 neglects one of her refrains halfway through

Bishop chooses not to use rhyme
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?

The banal nature of parenting

The freedom and variety of travel

The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The cycles of the natural world
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?

The United States

Mexico

England

France
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?"

Someone is futilely addressing a dying loved one

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

Dactylic hexameter

Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

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

A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's rhythmic structure

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?

Ajar

Disrupted

Enjambed

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

Grouping

Paragraph

Soliloquy

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

Villanelle

Novel

Sestina

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 first stanza

The final stanza

The penultimate stanza

They're all the same length

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