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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. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
2. Which term describes this poem most accurately?
3. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
4. Which word in lines 15-18 is meant to contrast the impermanent nature of life outside the lovers' relationship with the eternal nature of their love?
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. 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 the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
5. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
6. Describe the structure of this poem.
7. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
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 motif of sleep and waking in "The Good Morrow." Where is sleep discussed? What is its larger meaning? Where is waking discussed? What is its larger meaning? How do sleep and waking 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 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 "The Good Morrow" as an example of an aubade. What makes the poem an aubade? Why does it matter that this poem is an aubade--what additional understandings about theme arise from the poem's genre? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
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