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Practice #3-A Dainty Thing’s the Villanelle

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Question 1
1.

What is a “villanelle”?

Question 2
2.

Part A – Which is the metaphor from Stanza 1?

Question 3
3.

Part B – What is emphasized with the metaphor in Part A?

Question 4
4.

Part A – Put check marks before EACH example of onomatopoeia.

Question 5
5.

Part B – What is emphasized with the onomatopoeia in Part A?

Question 6
6.

Place check marks before the TWO refrains found in this poem.

Question 7
7.

Which line is ironic, and shows the poet poking gentle fun? How?

Question 8
8.

Which is a summary of Stanza 4?

Question 9
9.

You must not ask of it the swell / Of organs grandiose and sublime. Using context clues, what does the word, “sublime” mean in Stanza 4?

Question 10
10.

Which is the tone of this poem?

Question 11
11.

What does Stanza 5 tell you about the content of a villanelle?

Question 12
12.

What is the meaning of Line 16?

Question 13
13.

Still fair to see and good to smell / As in the quaintness of its prime, What does the word, “quaintness” mean in Stanza 6?

Question 14
14.

What is the theme of this poem?