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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Good Morrow," lines 1-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?
(a) Cacophony.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Antimetabole.

2. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?
(a) Eye rhyme.
(b) Identical rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Slant rhyme.

3. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
(a) Synechdoche.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Simile.
(d) Oxymoron.

4. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
(a) Line 18, "sharp north" and "declining west."
(b) Line 17, "better hemispheres."
(c) Line 13, "worlds on worlds."
(d) Line 16, "true plain hearts."

5. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Irony.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Antithesis.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

2. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

3. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?

4. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

5. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?

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