1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Anaphora Metaphor Alliteration Metonymy 2 What is the poem's meter? Iambic hexameter Iambic pentameter Anapestic trimeter Dactylic pentameter 3 Why can the speaker be considered an antagonist? Because she has caused emotional pain to her lover Because she is engaged in an internal conflict with herself Because she is unconventional and judged by her peers Because she has unintentionally caused her family to be inconvenienced 4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB ACAC ABAB CC ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ABB CDD EFF GHH ABBA ABBA CDC CDC 5 Who is the poem addressed to? The speaker's student The speaker's sibling The speaker's ex-lover The speaker's pet 6 Where does the volta take place? After line four After line eight After line twelve After line six 7 What has happened to upset the speaker? Her husband has had an affair Her lover no longer loves her Her sister has fallen in love with her fiance Her lover is very sick 8 How does the poem's imagery shift in the work's second half? There are almost no concrete images in the poem's second half Images of nature give way to images of urban luxury Images associated with femininity are replaced with images associated with masculinity Previously calm images are now portrayed as menacing 9 Which is an example of irony in the poem? The speaker's heartbreak over a man despite Millay's feminist politics The speaker's acknowledgment that male emotion is unpredictable, though she fights to control her own The speaker's fixation on nature in spite of her urban setting The poem's modernist form, which contrasts with traditional themes and ideas 10 Which word is an instance of metonomy? Heart Desire You Moon 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Country estate Stupid person Group of children Thick bunch of trees or bushes 12 How does this poem fit into Millay's literary career? It discusses Millay's childhood in New England, like much of her later work It is a persona poem, for which Millay is known It deviates from the Modernist experimentation Millay usually engaged in It is a sonnet, a form Millay often explored 13 How do the poem's last two lines recontextualize the rest of the poem? By making clear that the speaker does desire pity of a sort By revealing the identity of the person to whom the work is addressed By showing that it is the speaker who has caused harm to others By hinting that the speaker feels pity for her addressee 14 Which important transition takes place during lines 7-8? The shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme The transition to a new type of nature imagery The switch from the speaker's words to dialogue The revelation of the speaker's heartbreak 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Flirts Interrogates Attacks Sails 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By showing how small the speaker's problems are By depicting the impermanence of love By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad By portraying the pastoral romance the speaker longs for 17 What form does this poem take? Spenserian Sonnet Italian Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet Shakespearian Sonnet 18 How does the poem evoke the themes of transience and impermanence? Through time jumps between historical eras Through the slow breakdown of its own formal structure Through images of cyclical natural events Through images of death and decay 19 Where in the poem is the theme of gender most explicitly addressed? Line nine Line twelve Line two Line seven 20 When was this poem published? 1918 1904 1923 1912 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? By portraying her speaker's attempt to rationalize emotions By exploring how love and desire disrupt decision-making By showing how nature's seemingly random events are actually rational By evoking images of science and empiricism 22 What is the meaning of the word "gale"? Angry woman Blizzard Makeshift home Strong wind 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Diminish Strengthen Shine Undermine 24 What can the night sky best be said to symbolize? Freedom Mystery Emotional emptiness Censorship 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? M N L A
