1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Metonymy Alliteration Metaphor Anaphora 2 What is the poem's meter? Dactylic pentameter Iambic hexameter Iambic pentameter Anapestic trimeter 3 Why can the speaker be considered an antagonist? Because she is engaged in an internal conflict with herself 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 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 ex-lover The speaker's sibling The speaker's student The speaker's pet 6 Where does the volta take place? After line twelve After line eight After line six After line four 7 What has happened to upset the speaker? Her lover is very sick Her lover no longer loves her Her husband has had an affair Her sister has fallen in love with her fiance 8 How does the poem's imagery shift in the work's second half? Images of nature give way to images of urban luxury Previously calm images are now portrayed as menacing 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 speaker's heartbreak over a man despite Millay's feminist politics The poem's modernist form, which contrasts with traditional themes and ideas 10 Which word is an instance of metonomy? Heart You Moon Desire 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Group of children Country estate Stupid person 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 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 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 14 Which important transition takes place during lines 7-8? 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 The revelation of the speaker's heartbreak 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Attacks Interrogates Sails Flirts 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 Spenserian Sonnet Italian Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet 18 How does the poem evoke the themes of transience and impermanence? Through images of death and decay Through time jumps between historical eras Through the slow breakdown of its own formal structure 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 1918 1904 1923 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? By portraying her speaker's attempt to rationalize emotions By evoking images of science and empiricism 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"? Strong wind Makeshift home Angry woman 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? Freedom Censorship Mystery Emotional emptiness 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? M A N L
