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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 imperfection does line 18 suggest exists in the real northern hemisphere?
2. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?
3. 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?
4. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
5. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe the structure of this poem.
2. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
3. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
4. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
5. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
6. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
7. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
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 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 speaker's beliefs about love in "The Good Morrow." How important does love seem to be to the speaker? What are some of the things that the speaker thinks love can accomplish? How does this make the speaker feel? What role do the speaker's beliefs about love play in 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 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.
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