1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Metaphor Metonymy Alliteration Anaphora 2 What is the poem's meter? Dactylic pentameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter Anapestic trimeter 3 Why can the speaker be considered an antagonist? Because she has unintentionally caused her family to be inconvenienced Because she has caused emotional pain to her lover 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 ACAC ABAB CC ABB CDD EFF GHH ABBA ABBA CDC CDC ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 5 Who is the poem addressed to? The speaker's ex-lover The speaker's pet The speaker's sibling The speaker's student 6 Where does the volta take place? After line six After line twelve After line four After line eight 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? 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 speaker's fixation on nature in spite of her urban setting 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? Moon Desire Heart You 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Thick bunch of trees or bushes Country estate Group of children Stupid person 12 How does this poem fit into Millay's literary career? It deviates from the Modernist experimentation Millay usually engaged in It is a sonnet, a form Millay often explored It is a persona poem, for which Millay is known It discusses Millay's childhood in New England, like much of her later work 13 How do the poem's last two lines recontextualize the rest of the poem? By hinting that the speaker feels pity for her addressee By showing that it is the speaker who has caused harm to others 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 14 Which important transition takes place during lines 7-8? The revelation of the speaker's heartbreak The transition to a new type of nature imagery The switch from the speaker's words to dialogue The shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Sails Flirts Interrogates Attacks 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By showing how small the speaker's problems are By depicting the impermanence of love 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? Shakespearian Sonnet Italian Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet Spenserian 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 death and decay Through time jumps between historical eras Through images of cyclical natural events 19 Where in the poem is the theme of gender most explicitly addressed? Line nine Line twelve Line seven Line two 20 When was this poem published? 1904 1912 1923 1918 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? By showing how nature's seemingly random events are actually rational By exploring how love and desire disrupt decision-making 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"? Angry woman Makeshift home Blizzard Strong wind 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Undermine Diminish Shine Strengthen 24 What can the night sky best be said to symbolize? Censorship Mystery Emotional emptiness Freedom 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? N A L M