1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Anaphora Metonymy Alliteration Metaphor 2 What is the poem's meter? Iambic hexameter Dactylic pentameter Iambic pentameter Anapestic trimeter 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 has unintentionally caused her family to be inconvenienced Because she is unconventional and judged by her peers 4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ABBA ABBA CDC CDC 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 student The speaker's pet 6 Where does the volta take place? After line twelve After line four After line eight After line six 7 What has happened to upset the speaker? Her lover no longer loves her Her husband has had an affair Her lover is very sick Her sister has fallen in love with her fiance 8 How does the poem's imagery shift in the work's second half? Images associated with femininity are replaced with images associated with masculinity There are almost no concrete images in the poem's second half Images of nature give way to images of urban luxury 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 poem's modernist form, which contrasts with traditional themes and ideas The speaker's fixation on nature in spite of her urban setting The speaker's acknowledgment that male emotion is unpredictable, though she fights to control her own 10 Which word is an instance of metonomy? Moon Desire Heart You 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Thick bunch of trees or bushes Group of children Stupid person Country estate 12 How does this poem fit into Millay's literary career? It deviates from the Modernist experimentation Millay usually engaged in It is a persona poem, for which Millay is known It discusses Millay's childhood in New England, like much of her later work 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 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 shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme The revelation of the speaker's heartbreak The switch from the speaker's words to dialogue 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Flirts Interrogates Sails Attacks 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad By depicting the impermanence of love 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 Petrarchan Sonnet Italian Sonnet Spenserian 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 images of death and decay Through the slow breakdown of its own formal structure 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 1923 1904 1912 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? By exploring how love and desire disrupt decision-making By evoking images of science and empiricism By showing how nature's seemingly random events are actually rational By portraying her speaker's attempt to rationalize emotions 22 What is the meaning of the word "gale"? Strong wind Makeshift home Angry woman Blizzard 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Diminish Shine Undermine Strengthen 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 N L A
