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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. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
(a) "Rest" (line 16).
(b) "Plain" (line 16).
(c) "Declining" (line 18).
(d) "Sharp" (line 18).

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

3. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Appositive.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Pun.

4. 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) Anaphora.
(b) Antimetabole.
(c) Onomatopoeia.
(d) Cacophony.

5. 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) Slant rhyme.
(b) Identical rhyme.
(c) True rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

2. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

3. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

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

5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

(see the answer key)

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