One Art Quizzes

One Art Quiz: Villanelles and Poetry terminology

1 How many lines does a villanelle contain?
20

12

14

19
2 What kids of stanzas do villanelles use?
Couplets and quintains

Tercets and quatrains

Couplets and quatrains

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

Chorus

Conclusion

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

twelve

six

five
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?
Instructional

Pastoral

Erotic

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

Maggie Smith

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?
Voltaire

Victor Hugo

Michel de Montaigne

Jean Passerat
11 Which best describes the villanelle form?
Unstructured

Epic

Rhyme-heavy

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

With the repetition of the first refrain

With a new line, which rhymes with the refrains

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 makes alterations to her refrain throughout the poem

Bishop neglects one of her refrains halfway through
14 Which theme would be difficult to express in villanelle form?
The repeated routines of learning a new skill

The freedom and variety of travel

The cycles of the natural world

The banal nature of parenting
15 Where did villanelles likely originate?
England

France

Mexico

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

Madness

Aging

Femininity
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

A mother is describing the dangers of the world to her child

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?"
Spondaic dimeter

Iambic pentameter

Dactylic hexameter

Trochaic trimeter
19 What does the term "meter" refer to?
A poem's length and appearance on the page

A poem's pattern of spaces

A poem's rhythmic structure

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

Disrupted

Enjambed

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

Grouping

Paragraph

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 two cities, lovely ones.

The art of losing isn't hard to master.

I lost my mother's watch.

Lose something every day.
25 Which stanza in a villanelle is the longest?
They're all the same length

The first stanza

The final stanza

The penultimate stanza

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