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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 time of day in this poem's setting?

2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

3. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

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

5. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 theme. What are the various claims this poem makes? What patterns of meaning--motifs--do you see in the poem? How do language and detail choices support these motifs? What overall idea sums up all of these smaller claims and patterns of 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 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.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Donne's use of repetition in "The Good Morrow." Where does repetition occur? How does it create emphasis? What does it suggest about the similarities among ideas? How does it impact the poem's rhythm? How does repetition 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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