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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. Lines 12-14, "Let sea-discoverers to new worlds have gone,/ Let maps to other, worlds on worlds have shown,/ Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," contain an example of which technique?

2. What does the speaker say is "waking" in line 8?

3. What is the best interpretation of the meaning of "but this" in line 5?

4. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?

5. How many lines does "The Good-Morrow" contain?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain how the conceit of dreaming unifies the first 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 final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that makes and defends a claim about how Donne employs linebreak in "The Good Morrow." Which lines are enjambed? Which are endstopped? What difference do these choices make to the flow of the poem, and how does this impact tone? How do these choices impact the emphasis of ideas? How do these choices 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 Good Morrow" as an example of an aubade. What makes the poem an aubade? Why does it matter that this poem is an aubade--what additional understandings about theme arise from the poem's genre? 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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