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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 does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
3. 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"?
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 poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
2. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
3. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
4. Describe the structure of this poem.
5. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
6. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
7. Explain the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers.
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 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 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 3
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.
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