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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 kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?
2. 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?
3. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?
4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
5. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
2. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
3. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
4. Describe the structure of this poem.
5. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
6. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
7. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
8. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
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 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 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's tone. How would you describe the tone? Does it shift? What techniques create it? How does it contribute to 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 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of sleep and waking in "The Good Morrow." Where is sleep discussed? What is its larger meaning? Where is waking discussed? What is its larger meaning? How do sleep and waking 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.
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