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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. 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?

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

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

4. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

5. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

4. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first 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 the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.

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

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 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 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's meter and rhyme. Describe these and explain how they impact the poem's pace and tone. Explain how they create emphasis and support the poem's 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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