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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 do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
2. 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?
3. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
Short Essay Questions
1. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
2. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
3. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
4. Describe the structure of this poem.
5. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
6. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
7. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
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 how Donne employs linebreak in "The Good Morrow." Which lines are enjambed? Which are endstopped? What difference do these choices make to the flow of the poem, and how does this impact tone? How do these choices impact the emphasis of ideas? How do these choices 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 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 3
Write an essay that compares and contrasts "The Good Morrow" with another example of metaphysical poetry. What are the characteristics of metaphysical poetry? Which features of Donne's poem place it within this tradition? How does its theme fit into the tradition of metaphysical poetry? What features of the other poem are characteristic of metaphysical poetry? How does its theme fit into this tradition? In what ways are these two poems similar, and in what ways are they different? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from both poems. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
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