1 Which device does Millay employ specifically in lines one, three, five, and thirteen? Metonymy Metaphor Alliteration Anaphora 2 What is the poem's meter? Anapestic trimeter Dactylic pentameter Iambic pentameter Iambic hexameter 3 Why can the speaker be considered an antagonist? Because she is engaged in an internal conflict with herself Because she is unconventional and judged by her peers Because she has caused emotional pain to her lover 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 pet The speaker's ex-lover The speaker's sibling The speaker's student 6 Where does the volta take place? After line six After line eight After line twelve 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 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 9 Which is an example of irony in the poem? 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 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 10 Which word is an instance of metonomy? Heart You Moon Desire 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 discusses Millay's childhood in New England, like much of her later work It is a persona poem, for which Millay is known It is a sonnet, a form Millay often explored It deviates from the Modernist experimentation Millay usually engaged in 13 How do the poem's last two lines recontextualize the rest of the poem? 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 hinting that the speaker feels pity for her addressee By making clear that the speaker does desire pity of a sort 14 Which important transition takes place during lines 7-8? The transition to a new type of nature imagery The revelation of the speaker's heartbreak The shift to a nontraditional rhyme scheme The switch from the speaker's words to dialogue 15 What is the meaning of the word "assails"? Interrogates Attacks Flirts Sails 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 portraying the pastoral romance the speaker longs for By making the speaker's New York life seem alien and sad 17 What form does this poem take? Italian Sonnet Spenserian Sonnet Petrarchan 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 seven Line twelve Line two Line nine 20 When was this poem published? 1923 1918 1904 1912 21 How does Millay most prominently explore the theme of rationality? By portraying her speaker's attempt to rationalize emotions By showing how nature's seemingly random events are actually rational 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"? Angry woman Blizzard Strong wind Makeshift home 23 What is the meaning of the word "wane"? Strengthen Undermine Shine Diminish 24 What can the night sky best be said to symbolize? Censorship Emotional emptiness Mystery Freedom 25 The line “And you no longer look with love on me" features alliteration through which sound? N L A M