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

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

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

4. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?
(a) The residue of her own tears.
(b) The beginnings of a mustache.
(c) Beads of sweat.
(d) The sickly green shade of his skin.

5. 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) Onomatopoeia and metaphor.
(b) Metaphor and alliteration.
(c) Diacope and onomatopoeia.
(d) Alliteration and diacope.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. 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)?

4. What techniques are used in lines 25 and 26, "With this she seizeth on his sweating palm,/ The precedent of pith and livelihood"?

5. Which is the best definition for "Fondling" as used in line 229?

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