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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 4: Lines 613-810.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 254 and 255, "Her words are done, her woes the more increasing;/ The time is spent, her object will away"?
(a) Parallelism.
(b) Imagery.
(c) Apostrophe.
(d) Paradox.

2. What technique is used in line 645, "Grew I not faint, and fell I not downright"?
(a) Anadiplosis.
(b) Parallelism.
(c) Chiasmus.
(d) Antistrophe.

3. What technique is used in line 59, " Even so she kiss’d his brow, his cheek, his chin"?
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Chiasmus.
(c) Anthimeria.
(d) Asyndeton.

4. What does Adonis tell Venus is the only thing he could love?
(a) His horse.
(b) His own purity.
(c) A boar.
(d) His religious faith.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Which is the best interpretation of line 600, in which Venus is said "To clip Elysium and to lack her joy"?

2. What technique is used in lines 19 and 20, "not cloy thy lips with loath’d satiety,/ But rather famish them amid their plenty"?

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

5. What does the speaker compare to a grinning wolf and a bullet?

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