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1 What is the poet's full name?

Edna Millay

Vicenta Millay

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Edna Vincent Millay
2 What is the title of the poem?

First Fig

Second Fig

Light

Candlelight
3 Finish this quote: "My candle___"

burns at both ends

gives me such a fright

will not last the night

belongs to my foes and my friends
4 How many lines are in the poem?

3

6

4

5
5 What is the name for a stanza with the amount of lines that this poem has?

quintet

couplet

sextet

quatrain
6 Why might have Millay chosen the particular length of this poem to be what it is?

The form demonstrates the content.

The poem is incomplete.

She wanted to show that couplets are the superior form.

She was too lazy to write more.
7 What do figs represent?

Sweetness, enjoyment of life, femininity

Rottenness, bitterness in life

Patience, caution

Poison, shame, and disgust
8 What does the candle represent?

Immortality

Religion

The speaker's life

The speaker's faith
9 What does the idiom of a candle burning at both ends mean?

A person who hates studying.

Wit and elegance.

A fast and intense lifestyle that leads to burnout or death.

The intelligence to create more light.
10 What word rhymes with "ends" in the poem?

Friends

Hens

Sends

Lends
11 What word rhymes with "night" in the poem?

Light

Might

Sight

Kite
12 What is the meter?

Free verse

Common meter

Blank verse

Iambic pentameter
13 What number of alternating syllables per line does this poem have?

Eight and seven

Eight and six

Five and four

The syllables per line do not alternate
14 Which poetic device is not used in the poem?

Metaphor

Alliteration

Rhyme

Personification
15 Which is not a theme in the poem?

Seizing the Night

People-pleasing

Light and Vitality

Challenging Gender Norms
16 How does the speaker describe her light?

Radiant

Lovely

Gorgeous

Beautiful
17 What does the light represent?

The coming of day

Electricity

Danger

The speaker's vitality and passion
18 What is significant about the speaker having foes?

It is not relevant.

The speaker was antisocial.

It means that she lived a public, authentic, and controversial lifestyle.

The speaker hated everyone.
19 What punctuation mark does the poem end with?

A dash

A question

A period

An exclamation
20 What is a spondee?

An unstressed syllable followed by a stressed syllable.

A foot consisting of two unstressed syllables.

A foot consisting of two long (or stressed) syllables.

A stressed syllable followed by an unstressed syllable.
21 Which collection was this poem originally published in?

A Few Figs From Thistles

The Ballad of the Harp Weaver

Collected Poems

Second April
22 When was the collection published?

1925

1920

1922

1923
23 When was Edna St. Vincent Millay born?

1915

1892

1900

1880
24 Where did Millay live her adult life?

Maine

Vermont

Florida

New York
25 What is the tone of the poem?

Bitter, Wrathful, Seeking

Joyful, Airy, Shrewd

Pessimistic, Fearful, Angry

Assertive, Celebratory, Passionate

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