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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 do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
2. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?
3. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
4. Which term best describes the rhyming in lines 13 and 14, "Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one"?
5. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?
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. 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 the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
6. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
7. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
8. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
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.
Essay Topic 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the poem's tone. How would you describe the tone? Does it shift? What techniques create it? How does it contribute to 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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