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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) Appositive.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Pun.
(d) Hyperbole.

2. What is the literal meaning of the poem's title?
(a) The good day after.
(b) The good soul.
(c) The good news.
(d) The good morning.

3. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
(a) Appeal to Ethos.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Understatement.
(d) Rhetorical question.

4. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Diacope.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Epistrophe.

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) True rhyme.
(c) Identical rhyme.
(d) Eye rhyme.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant meter of this poem?

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

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

5. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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