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

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

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 the poem's religious overtones. What diction choices have religious connotations? How do the allusion to the Seven Sleepers and the poem's motif of awakenings support the poem's religious aspect? How is the rising sun related to Christian religious symbolism? Be sure to make clear how the religious overtones in the poem support its 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 meaning of lines 19-21. What claim is the speaker making here? How do these lines reflect on the quatrain they follow? What purpose does this claim serve in the poem's overall argument? 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 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.

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