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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 8 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
2. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?
3. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
4. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
5. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
2. What element of hyperbole is contained in 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. Describe the structure of this poem.
6. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
7. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
8. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of discovery and exploration in "The Good Morrow." How do language and detail choices create this motif? What different aspects of discovery and exploration are invoked? How does this motif support the poem's overall meaning? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about "The Good Morrow" as an example of an aubade. What makes the poem an aubade? Why does it matter that this poem is an aubade--what additional understandings about theme arise from the poem's genre? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the speaker's beliefs about love in "The Good Morrow." How important does love seem to be to the speaker? What are some of the things that the speaker thinks love can accomplish? How does this make the speaker feel? What role do the speaker's beliefs about love play in the poem's overall meaning? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
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