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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 is the "jennet" that appears in line 260?
(a) A horse.
(b) A bird.
(c) A fox.
(d) A flower.

2. Which technique is used in line 218, "And swelling passion doth provoke a pause"?
(a) Inversion.
(b) Antistrophe.
(c) Parallelism.
(d) Alliteration.

3. What does Venus compare Adonis to in line 8?
(a) A stallion.
(b) The sun.
(c) A stag.
(d) A flower.

4. To whom is the poem dedicated?
(a) James I.
(b) Anne Hathaway.
(c) The Earl of Southampton.
(d) Elizabeth I.

5. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?
(a) Anthimeria.
(b) Asyndeton.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Oxymoron.

Short Answer Questions

1. What motif recurs throughout the description of the horse's courage and desire?

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"?

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

4. What is the "copse" mentioned in line 259?

5. What does the speaker compare to caves?

(see the answer key)

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