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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 time of day in this poem's setting?

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

3. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?

4. In lines 2 and 3, what does the speaker compare himself and his lover to, before their relationship began?

5. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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 the poem's use of rhetorical questions. Where do they occur, and what significance does their placement have? What effect do they have on tone, and what larger purpose does this serve? 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 poem's religious overtones. What diction choices have religious connotations? How do the allusion to the Seven Sleepers and the poem's motif of awakenings support the poem's religious aspect? How is the rising sun related to Christian religious symbolism? Be sure to make clear how the religious overtones in the poem support its 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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