1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Anaphora Alliteration Metaphor Metonymy 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 unintentionally caused her family to be inconvenienced Because she is unconventional and judged by her peers Because she is engaged in an internal conflict with herself Because she has caused emotional pain to her lover 4 What is the poem's rhyme scheme? ABBA ABBA CDC CDC ABAB ACAC ABAB CC ABAB CDCD EFEF GG ABB CDD EFF GHH 5 Who is the poem addressed to? The speaker's pet The speaker's ex-lover The speaker's student The speaker's sibling 6 Where does the volta take place? After line four After line six After line eight 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 Images of nature give way to images of urban luxury There are almost no concrete images in the poem's second half Previously calm images are now portrayed as menacing 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 poem's modernist form, which contrasts with traditional themes and ideas The speaker's heartbreak over a man despite Millay's feminist politics The speaker's fixation on nature in spite of her urban setting 10 Which word is an instance of metonomy? Heart Moon Desire You 11 What is the meaning of the word "thicket"? Stupid person Group of children Country estate Thick bunch of trees or bushes 12 How does this poem fit into Millay's literary career? It is a persona poem, for which Millay is known 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 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 revealing the identity of the person to whom the work is addressed 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 14 Which important transition takes place during lines 7-8? The shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme 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 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Flirts Interrogates Sails Attacks 16 How does the motif of nature function throughout the poem? By portraying the pastoral romance the speaker longs for By showing how small the speaker's problems are By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad By depicting the impermanence of love 17 What form does this poem take? Spenserian Sonnet Petrarchan Sonnet Italian Sonnet Shakespearian Sonnet 18 How does the poem evoke the themes of transience and impermanence? Through the slow breakdown of its own formal structure Through time jumps between historical eras Through images of death and decay Through images of cyclical natural events 19 Where in the poem is the theme of gender most explicitly addressed? Line nine Line two Line twelve Line seven 20 When was this poem published? 1923 1904 1912 1918 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? By showing how nature's seemingly random events are actually rational 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 22 What is the meaning of the word "gale"? Blizzard Makeshift home Angry woman Strong wind 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Strengthen Diminish Undermine Shine 24 What can the night sky best be said to symbolize? Censorship Mystery Freedom Emotional emptiness 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? M L A N
