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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5: Lines 811-1008.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What technique is used in lines 401 and 402, "Who is so faint that dare not be so bold/ To touch the fire, the weather being cold?"
(a) Oxymoron.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Personification.
(d) Metaphor.

2. What does Venus tell Adonis is his "duty" (line 168)?
(a) To enjoy youth while it lasts.
(b) To accept the admiration his great beauty causes.
(c) To have sex and beget children.
(d) To obey the will of a goddess.

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) The ocean.
(b) Wax.
(c) A stamp.
(d) Sand.

4. What technique is used in lines 693 and 694, "Ceasing their clamorous cry, till they have singled/ With much ado the cold fault cleanly out"?
(a) Alliteration.
(b) Assonance.
(c) Euphony.
(d) Sibilance.

5. Besides being goddess of the moon and the hunt, what significant power was Cynthia believed to possess?
(a) The power to control the weather.
(b) The power to increase crop yields.
(c) The power to cause sudden illness and death.
(d) The power to cause memory loss and hallucinations.

Short Answer 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"?

2. What technique is used in lines 647 and 648, "My boding heart pants, beats, and takes no rest,/ But like an earthquake, shakes thee on my breast"?

3. What metaphorical comparison is introduced when the horse crushes the bit?

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 technique is used in line 432, "Ear’s deep sweet music, and heart’s deep sore wounding"?

(see the answer key)

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