Question

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".

And may you, mulberry, whose boughs now shade
one wretched body and will soon shade two,
forever bear these darkly colored fruits
as signs of our sad end

What statement best describes the use of poetic elements in the excerpt?

A tree is given symbolic meaning.
Thisbe delivers a rhythmic song.
Ovid uses patterned rhyme

Answer 1

A tree is given symbolic meaning.

Explanation: The speaker addresses the mulberry and makes its dark fruit a lasting sign of the lovers’ tragic fate, using personification/apostrophe to give the tree symbolic significance.