Questions and Answers.
Q1 The Good Morrow allusion (No visible question text) - Answer that the lovers were
oblivious to the world around them
Which of the following best explains the function of the shift in line 5 from rhetorical questions
to statements? - Answer The speaker moves from idle speculation of the past to earnest
declaration of the current state of their love.
Which of the following best paraphrases the speaker's argument in lines 10-11 ? - Answer
Lovers see a beauty in one another that seems sufficient to fill the world.
Q4 The Good Morrow conceit (No visible question text) - Answer collectively accessible worlds
and a private world shared by the lovers
In context, lines 15-16 ("My face . . . rest") most clearly serve to represent both - Answer a
literal reflection and a figurative union
How does the rhetorical question in lines 17-18 of the final stanza ("Where . . . West?") function
in the poem as a whole? - Answer It extends the geographical imagery of the second stanza.
The metaphor in lines 17-18 ("two better . . . West") suggests that the lovers' relationship -
Answer is more perfect than the natural world
Q8 The Death of Allegory juxtaposition (No Visible Question Text) - Answer "capital letters"
(line 4) and "lower case" (line 24)
Which of the following best describes the function of the conceit in "a thought in a coat" (line
7)? - Answer It reinforces the speaker's celebration of how artists bestowed physical form on
abstractions.
For the speaker, the condominiums in line 19 primarily symbolize - Answer fashionable but
shallow contemporary values