Question

read the excerpt from ovids 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.

Explanation:

En el excerto, el muero se convierte en un símbolo de la tristeza y el final trágico de los personajes, representado por los frutos oscuros que porta. No hay similitud (simile), no se presenta una canción rítmica y no hay un patrón de rima evidente.

Answer:

B. A tree is given symbolic meaning.