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

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

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

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

5. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is boring.
(b) It is stressful.
(c) It is cold.
(d) It is ugly.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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