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