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

2. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

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

4. 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?
(a) Line 19 "equally."
(b) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(c) Line 11, "one little room."
(d) Line 17, "hemispheres."

5. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?
(a) Midnight.
(b) Morning.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Noon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

2. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

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

4. 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?

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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