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