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

2. To whom is Venus referring when she brags about being courted by the god of war?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Mercury.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Mars.

3. Which technique is used in lines 221 and 222, "And now she weeps, and now she fain would speak/ And now her sobs do her intendments break"?
(a) Paralepsis.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Anaphora.
(d) Chiasmus.

4. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Venus referring to when she tells Adonis that "The tender spring upon thy tempting lip/ Shows thee unripe" (lines 127-128)?

2. Who or what is being described when the word "fetlocks" is used in line 295?

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

4. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?

5. 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)?

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