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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) Consonance and inversion.
(b) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(c) Alliteration and antithesis.
(d) Sibilance and euphony.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

2. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

3. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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