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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Lines 811-1008.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 401 and 402, "Who is so faint that dare not be so bold/ To touch the fire, the weather being cold?"
(a) Symbolism.
(b) Personification.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Oxymoron.

2. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?
(a) Epigram.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Inversion.

3. What critique does the speaker offer of Venus's song?
(a) It is immodest.
(b) It exaggerates her feelings.
(c) It is out of tune.
(d) It is long and boring.

4. What technique is used in line 899, "Bids them leave quaking, bids them fear no more"?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Anaphora.
(c) Antithesis.
(d) Anthimeria.

5. What causes Venus to fall to the ground, unconscious?
(a) Adonis tells her that he will never love her or even desire her.
(b) She is overcome by the heat from the sun.
(c) Adonis pushes her roughly away from him.
(d) She has a premonition of the words Adonis is about to speak.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird's song heralds the approach of morning?

2. How does Venus know that the dogs are barking at a boar, bear, or lion?

3. What technique is used in line 431, "Melodious discord, heavenly tune, harsh-sounding"?

4. When Venus "sings extemporally a woeful ditty," what is the best definition for "extemporally" in this context (line 836)?

5. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?

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