1. How does Adonis react to Venus's comparison of herself to a park?
(a) With laughter.
(b) With desire.
(c) With contempt.
(d) With compassion.

2. 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) Inversion.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Malapropism.

3. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?
(a) Venus cannot think clearly because she is ill.
(b) Venus's thoughts are evil.
(c) Venus is sick with love for Adonis.
(d) Venus's thoughts are unnatural.

4. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?
(a) A stand of trees.
(b) A fenced area.
(c) A small barn.
(d) A valley.

5. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?
(a) Anaphora.
(b) Synecdoche.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Personification.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best characterization of the connotations of Venus's description of "fountains" (line 234) and "rising hillocks" in her description of the park (line 237)?

2. To whom is the poem dedicated?

3. 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?"

4. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?

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

(see the answer key)

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