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

2. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?
(a) The bit is compared to logic and reason.
(b) The horse is compared to an unruly child.
(c) The bit is compared to an unjust law.
(d) The horse is compared to an escaped slave.

3. What technique is used when, in line 108, Venus says that Mars made "my arms his field, his tent my bed"?
(a) Euphemism.
(b) Metonymy.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

4. What does the speaker compare to caves?
(a) Adonis's dimples.
(b) Adonis's heart and mind.
(c) Venus's arguments.
(d) Venus's eyes.

5. What is Adonis being compared to when the speaker says he is "Like a dive-dapper" (86)?
(a) An osprey.
(b) A swimmer.
(c) A fish.
(d) A duck.

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. What does Adonis do just before he turns his head away from Venus's kiss?

3. In lines 79-84, what bargain does Venus try to strike with Adonis?

4. Which is the best interpretation of "sick-thoughted Venus" in line 5?

5. What "circuit" is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis "I have hemm’d thee here/ Within the circuit of this ivory pale" (lines 229-230)?

(see the answer key)

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