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