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:

In the excerpt, the mulberry tree is given symbolic meaning as its fruits are seen as signs of the sad end of the characters. There is no simile comparing a tree to death, no indication of a rhythmic song by Thisbe, and no evidence of patterned rhyme.

Answer:

A tree is given symbolic meaning.