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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 3: Lines 409-612.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What technique is used in line 470, "For sharply he did think to reprehend her"?
(a) Epigram.
(b) Cacophony.
(c) Euphemism.
(d) Inversion.

3. To what does Venus compare her own lips when she says that Adonis's lips are "sweet seals in my soft lips imprinted" (line 511)?
(a) Wax.
(b) Sand.
(c) The ocean.
(d) A stamp.

4. What technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?
(a) Antithesis.
(b) Juxtaposition.
(c) Antimetabole.
(d) Oxymoron.

5. What does Adonis mean when he tells Venus that she can stop her tears and flattery, because in his heart, "they make no batt’ry" (line 426).
(a) Her tears and flattery do not spark a fire in his heart.
(b) Her tears and flattery cannot break down the walls around his heart.
(c) Her tears and flattery are incapable of sustaining love in any lasting way.
(d) Her tears and flattery are like an assault and can cause him physical harm.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best definition of "stillitory" in line 443, "For from the stillitory of thy face excelling"?

2. When Venus and Adonis are on the ground kissing in lines 547-558, what is Venus being compared to?

3. 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"?

4. Which of the poem's motifs is most clearly illustrated by line 41, "Backward she push’d him, as she would be thrust"?

5. What technique is used in line 75, "Still is he sullen, still he lours and frets"?

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