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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 this poem most accurately?
(a) Epistle.
(b) Dialogue.
(c) Aside.
(d) Apostrophe.
2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.
(b) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(c) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(d) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
3. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
(a) ABABCCC.
(b) AABBCCC.
(c) ABABABA.
(d) ABCABCA.
4. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Pun.
(b) Appositive.
(c) Hyperbole.
(d) Metonymy.
5. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
(a) It is stressful.
(b) It is boring.
(c) It is cold.
(d) It is ugly.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
2. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
4. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
5. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the structure of this poem.
2. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
3. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
4. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
5. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
6. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
7. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
8. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
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