1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Metaphor Anaphora Metonymy Alliteration 2 What is the poem's meter? Iambic hexameter Iambic pentameter Dactylic pentameter Anapestic trimeter 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? ABB CDD EFF GHH ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ABBA ABBA CDC CDC ABAB ACAC ABAB CC 5 Who is the poem addressed to? The speaker's sibling The speaker's pet The speaker's ex-lover The speaker's student 6 Where does the volta take place? After line four After line twelve After line six After line eight 7 What has happened to upset the speaker? Her husband has had an affair Her lover is very sick Her lover no longer loves her Her sister has fallen in love with her fiance 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 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 The poem's modernist form, which contrasts with traditional themes and ideas The speaker's heartbreak over a man despite Millay's feminist politics 10 Which word is an instance of metonomy? Heart Desire You Moon 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Thick bunch of trees or bushes Country estate Stupid person Group of children 12 How does this poem fit into Millay's literary career? 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 It is a persona poem, for which Millay is known 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 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 14 Which important transition takes place during lines 7-8? The switch from the speaker's words to dialogue The revelation of the speaker's heartbreak The shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme The transition to a new type of nature imagery 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Sails Attacks Interrogates Flirts 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad By portraying the pastoral romance the speaker longs for By depicting the impermanence of love By showing how small the speaker's problems are 17 What form does this poem take? Shakespearian Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet Italian 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 death and decay Through images of cyclical natural events 19 Where in the poem is the theme of gender most explicitly addressed? Line twelve Line seven Line nine Line two 20 When was this poem published? 1923 1918 1912 1904 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? 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 By exploring how love and desire disrupt decision-making 22 What is the meaning of the word "gale"? Blizzard Makeshift home Angry woman Strong wind 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Undermine Shine Diminish Strengthen 24 What can the night sky best be said to symbolize? Mystery Censorship Emotional emptiness Freedom 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? N M A L
