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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. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?
2. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
3. Although the speaker has indicated that each lover is a complete world, where does the diction suggest that each is actually incomplete without the other?
4. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?
5. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?
Short Essay Questions
1. What element of hyperbole is contained in the poem's allusion to the Seven Sleepers?
2. Where is this poem set, and what is happening there?
3. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.
4. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first stanza.
5. Describe the structure of this poem.
6. Explain the rhetorical purpose of the image that begins the third stanza.
7. Explain how the conceit of exploration is incorporated into the speaker's argument in stanza two.
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 Donne's use of figurative language in "The Good Morrow." What types of figurative language does he use? What is the meaning of the figurative language? How does it 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 theme. What are the various claims this poem makes? What patterns of meaning--motifs--do you see in the poem? How do language and detail choices support these motifs? What overall idea sums up all of these smaller claims and patterns of 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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