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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. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

2. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

3. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

4. What kind of fear is the speaker referring to in line 9?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?

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

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

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

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

6. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?

7. Describe the structure of this poem.

8. Explain 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 assonance, alliteration, and consonance in "The Good Morrow." Where does Donne employ these techniques? What impact do they have on tone? How do they create emphasis? What is the larger significance of these choices--how do they support 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 poem's title. What does the title refer to? How does the title support the thematic motif of awakening? What does this have to do with 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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