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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 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"?
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. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
5. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
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. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
4. Describe the structure of this poem.
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 how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first 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 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 2
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the motif of discovery and exploration in "The Good Morrow." How do language and detail choices create this motif? What different aspects of discovery and exploration 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.
Essay Topic 3
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.
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