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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 8 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Alliteration and antithesis.
(b) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(c) Consonance and inversion.
(d) Sibilance and euphony.

2. 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 17, "hemispheres."
(b) Line 14, "each hath one, and is one."
(c) Line 11, "one little room."
(d) Line 19 "equally."

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?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Onomatopoeia.

4. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
(a) Dialogue.
(b) Apostrophe.
(c) Aside.
(d) Epistle.

5. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
(a) His and his lover's hearts.
(b) His mind.
(c) His and his lover's souls.
(d) His desire.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

4. 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"?

5. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.

2. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?

3. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.

4. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.

5. Describe the structure of this poem.

6. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?

7. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.

8. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.

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