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

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Braeden George

21 February, 04:18

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

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Keshawn Rowe · Answer 1

A tree is given symbolic meaning would probably be the statement which best describes how poetic elements are used within the excerpt. The way the words were written seemed to convey a different meaning to what it is exactly being stated.