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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 1: Lines 1-216.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Who is the author of the poem's epigraph?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Shakespeare.
(c) Henry Wriothesley.
(d) Ovid.

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

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

Short Answer 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"?

2. What does Adonis accuse Venus of in line 53?

3. What technique is used in line 111, "Strong-temper’d steel his stronger strength obey’d"?

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. What does Venus call "heavenly moisture" in line 64?

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