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

2. Which term describes this poem most accurately?

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

4. Where does the poet describe what the lovers see in one another's faces?

5. Line 10, "For love, all love of other sights controls," contains an example of which technique?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

8. Describe the structure of this poem.

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 poem's title. What does the title refer to? How does the title support the thematic motif of awakening? What does this have to do with 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 use of rhetorical questions. Where do they occur, and what significance does their placement have? What effect do they have on tone, and what larger purpose does this serve? 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 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.

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