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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 different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
2. 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?
3. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
4. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
5. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
2. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
3. Describe the structure of this poem.
4. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
5. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
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 rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third 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 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.
Essay Topic 2
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.
Essay Topic 3
Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about the impact of Donne's choice to frame his poem as an apostrophe to the beloved. What is an apostrophe? How does the reader recognize that the poem is an apostrophe to the beloved? What impact does this choice have on tone? How does this choice support the poem's claims about an all-consuming love? Support your ideas with both quoted and paraphrased evidence from the poem's text. Cite your evidence in MLA format.
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