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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: "The Good Morrow," lines 1-21.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which techniques are seen in line 15, "My face in thine eye, thine in mine appears"?
(a) Assonance and internal rhyme.
(b) Alliteration and antithesis.
(c) Sibilance and euphony.
(d) Consonance and inversion.

2. What do the poem's final three lines suggest is true about the speaker's and his lover's relationship?
(a) Their relationship already feels as if it has gone on forever.
(b) He wishes that she would give as much to the relationship as he does.
(c) The power of their love can overcome any real-world obstacles.
(d) Because they love and give an equal amount, their love is immortal.

3. What is the dominant meter of this poem?
(a) Trochaic pentameter.
(b) Iambic hexameter.
(c) Trochaic hexameter.
(d) Iambic pentameter.

4. Line 11, "And makes one little room an everywhere," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Hyperbole.
(b) Irony.
(c) Synesthesia.
(d) Antithesis.

5. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?
(a) Diacope.
(b) Polysyndeton.
(c) Epistrophe.
(d) Parallelism.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the time of day in this poem's setting?

2. What is the rhyme scheme within each stanza?

3. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?

4. 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?

5. Which technique is used repeatedly in the first quatrain?

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