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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 the dominant meter of this poem?

2. What imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?

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

4. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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 poem's diction. What are its characteristics? What patterns do you notice? How do these aspects of diction support that 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 Donne's use of figurative language in "The Good Morrow." What types of figurative language does he use? What is the meaning of the figurative language? How does it 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 makes and defends a claim about the motif of vision in "The Good Morrow." How do language and detail choices create this motif? What different aspects of vision 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.

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