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

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

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
(a) Farmers.
(b) Animals.
(c) Inanimate objects.
(d) Babies.

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They do not rhyme.
(b) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(c) They are addressed to a different audience.
(d) They are enjambed.

5. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?
(a) Soul, or life force.
(b) A sincere question.
(c) A pledge of honesty.
(d) Religious faith.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

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

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

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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