Question

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

Lest each lose
the other as they wandered separately
across the open fields, they were to meet
at Ninus' tomb and hide beneath a tree
in darkness; for beside that tomb there stood
a tall mulberry close to a cool spring,
a tree well weighted down with snow-white berries.

What story element is developed in the excerpt?

the characters’ motivations
the setting of the meeting place
a theme of youthful passion
a plot complication

Answer 1

the setting of the meeting place

The passage describes where they agree to meet (Ninus' tomb, the mulberry tree by a spring), so it develops the meeting's setting.