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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 literal meaning of the poem's title?

2. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

3. Who is the author of "The Good Morrow"?

4. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

5. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.

4. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

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 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 2

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about Donne's use of repetition in "The Good Morrow." Where does repetition occur? How does it create emphasis? What does it suggest about the similarities among ideas? How does it impact the poem's rhythm? How does repetition 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 3

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of vision in "The Good Morrow." How do language and detail choices create this motif? What different aspects of vision are invoked? How does this motif 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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