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 pentameter Anapestic trimeter Iambic hexameter 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 engaged in an internal conflict with herself Because she is unconventional and judged by her peers 4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABAB ACAC ABAB CC ABBA ABBA CDC CDC ABB CDD EFF GHH ABAB CDCD EFEF GG 5 Who is the poem addressed to? The speaker's pet The speaker's ex-lover The speaker's sibling The speaker's student 6 Where does the volta take place? After line twelve After line eight After line four After line six 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 no longer loves her Her lover is very sick 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 Images associated with femininity are replaced with images associated with masculinity Previously calm images are now portrayed as menacing Images of nature give way to images of urban luxury 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? Desire Moon Heart You 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Country estate Thick bunch of trees or bushes 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 is a persona poem, for which Millay is known It deviates from the Modernist experimentation Millay usually engaged in 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 switch from the speaker's words to dialogue The transition to a new type of nature imagery The revelation of the speaker's heartbreak The shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Attacks Sails Interrogates Flirts 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By depicting the impermanence of love By showing how small the speaker's problems are By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad By portraying the pastoral romance the speaker longs for 17 What form does this poem take? Italian Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet Shakespearian Sonnet Petrarchan 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 images of cyclical natural events Through time jumps between historical eras 19 Where in the poem is the theme of gender most explicitly addressed? Line twelve Line nine Line two Line seven 20 When was this poem published? 1923 1904 1918 1912 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? 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 By exploring how love and desire disrupt decision-making 22 What is the meaning of the word "gale"? Strong wind Angry woman Makeshift home Blizzard 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Undermine Strengthen Diminish Shine 24 What can the night sky best be said to symbolize? Mystery Freedom Emotional emptiness Censorship 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? M L N A
