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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 8 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice 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?
(a) Antimetabole.
(b) Onomatopoeia.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Cacophony.

2. What does the phrase "'Twas so" in line 5 mean?
(a) It confirms that the possibilities outlined in lines 1-4 were actually true.
(b) It makes clear that the whole stanza is hypothetical, not a reality.
(c) It introduces the logical consequences of the ideas offered in lines 1-4.
(d) It creates a shift in time, indicating that lines 5-7 take place in the future.

3. How many additional syllables does the final line in each stanza contain?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 1.

4. What is different about the poem's first two and last two lines?
(a) They are enjambed.
(b) They are addressed to a different audience.
(c) They have fewer syllables than the others.
(d) They do not rhyme.

5. Which term describes the use of the word "beauty" in line 6?
(a) Pun.
(b) Appositive.
(c) Metonymy.
(d) Hyperbole.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The mention of the Seven Sleepers in line 4 is an example of which technique?

3. In line 14, "Let us possess one world, each hath one, and is one," what two things are being compared?

4. In line 1, the speaker uses the word "troth." What does this word mean in this context?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the structure of this poem.

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

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

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

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

6. Explain the poem's final conceit about the hemispheres of a planet.

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

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

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