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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 2: Lines 217-408.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?
(a) Polysyndeton.
(b) Paradox.
(c) Malapropism.
(d) Inversion.

2. Which techniques are used in lines 267-268, "The bearing earth with his hard hoof he wounds/ Whose hollow womb resounds like heaven’s thunder"?
(a) Alliteration and diacope.
(b) Metaphor and alliteration.
(c) Diacope and onomatopoeia.
(d) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.

3. What colors are most prominent in the first 36 stanzas of the poem?
(a) Blue and red.
(b) Purple and blue.
(c) White and purple.
(d) Red and white.

4. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?
(a) Smiles.
(b) Moans.
(c) Winks.
(d) Shudders.

5. What does Venus mean when she says that the stallion stood "like a jade" when he was tied to the tree (line 391)?
(a) He was more valuable before he revealed his rebellious streak.
(b) He was as still as a statue.
(c) He was like a broken-down cart horse.
(d) He was beautiful but not useful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?

2. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?

3. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?

4. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?

5. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?

(see the answer key)

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