1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Metonymy Anaphora Metaphor Alliteration 2 What is the poem's meter? Anapestic trimeter Iambic hexameter Dactylic pentameter Iambic pentameter 3 Why can the speaker be considered an antagonist? 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 Because she has unintentionally caused her family to be inconvenienced 4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB ACAC ABAB CC ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ABBA ABBA CDC CDC ABB CDD EFF GHH 5 Who is the poem addressed to? The speaker's student The speaker's sibling The speaker's pet The speaker's ex-lover 6 Where does the volta take place? After line twelve After line six After line eight After line four 7 What has happened to upset the speaker? Her husband has had an affair Her sister has fallen in love with her fiance Her lover is very sick Her lover no longer loves her 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 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 Heart You Desire 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Country estate Stupid person Group of children Thick bunch of trees or bushes 12 How does this poem fit into Millay's literary career? It is a sonnet, a form Millay often explored 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 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"? Attacks Flirts Interrogates Sails 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad By showing how small the speaker's problems are By depicting the impermanence of love By portraying the pastoral romance the speaker longs for 17 What form does this poem take? Petrarchan Sonnet Shakespearian Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet Italian Sonnet 18 How does the poem evoke the themes of transience and impermanence? Through images of cyclical natural events Through time jumps between historical eras 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 seven Line two Line nine Line twelve 20 When was this poem published? 1904 1923 1918 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 portraying her speaker's attempt to rationalize emotions By showing how nature's seemingly random events are actually rational 22 What is the meaning of the word "gale"? Angry woman Makeshift home Strong wind Blizzard 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Undermine Strengthen Shine Diminish 24 What can the night sky best be said to symbolize? Emotional emptiness Censorship Freedom Mystery 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? L A M N
