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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) Euphemism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metonymy.

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

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

4. 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) Anaphora.
(b) Anadiplosis.
(c) Paralepsis.
(d) Chiasmus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the definition of "recketh" in the line "What recketh he his rider’s angry stir" (line 283)?

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

3. To whom is the poem dedicated?

4. 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"?

5. What color is most prominent in the description of Venus kneeling before Adonis and putting her hand on his cheek?

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