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? Iambic hexameter Iambic pentameter Dactylic pentameter Anapestic trimeter 3 Why can the speaker be considered an antagonist? Because she has caused emotional pain to her lover Because she has unintentionally caused her family to be inconvenienced 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 CDCD EFEF GG ABAB ACAC ABAB CC ABBA ABBA CDC CDC ABB CDD EFF GHH 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 four After line eight After line six After line twelve 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 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 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 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 Moon Desire You 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Stupid person Country estate Thick bunch of trees or bushes Group of children 12 How does this poem fit into Millay's literary career? 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 It is a sonnet, a form Millay often explored 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 shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme The transition to a new type of nature imagery The switch from the speaker's words to dialogue 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Sails Attacks Flirts Interrogates 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By showing how small the speaker's problems are By portraying the pastoral romance the speaker longs for By depicting the impermanence of love By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad 17 What form does this poem take? Shakespearian Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet Italian 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 two Line seven Line twelve Line nine 20 When was this poem published? 1912 1904 1918 1923 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? By portraying her speaker's attempt to rationalize emotions By exploring how love and desire disrupt decision-making By showing how nature's seemingly random events are actually rational By evoking images of science and empiricism 22 What is the meaning of the word "gale"? Makeshift home Angry woman Blizzard Strong wind 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Diminish Shine Strengthen Undermine 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 L A M
