Narrative Elements in “Pyramus and Thisbe”, from Ovid’s Metamorphoses

Question 1

Read the chart.Which type of writing best completes the chart?

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play in poetic form

Question 2

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".Theirs did—indeed they wanted to be wed, but marriage was forbidden by their parents; yet there's one thing that parents can't prevent: the flame of love that burned in both of them.

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an introduction of theme

Question 3

Pyramus is dyingPyramus no longer loves hershe is lost in the woodsshe is in grave danger

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Pyramus is dying

Question 4

Read the poem.The house was silentThe sky was dimUntil slim raysStretched highThen morning arrivedFluttering heavy lidsAnd opening eyes.

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“until” and “then”

Question 5

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".The blood leaped high;it spouted like a broken leaden pipethat, through a slender hole where it is worn,sends out a long and hissing stream as jetsof water cleave the air.

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The figurative language describes the violence of the scene.

Question 6

Which line(s) from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" reveal a plot detail?

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Delighted with their plan—impatiently—they waited for the close of day.

Question 7

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".And may you, mulberry, whose boughs now shadeone wretched body and will soon shade two,forever bear these darkly colored fruitsas signs of our sad end

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A tree is given symbolic meaning.

Question 8

Read the excerpts from Ovid’s Pyramus and Thisbe and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet."Pyramus and Thisbe"They had no confidant—and so used signs: with these each lover read the other's mind: when covered, fire acquires still more force.Romeo and JulietRomeo: [. . .] It is enough I may but call her mine.Friar Lawrence: These violent delights have violent endsAnd in their triumph die, like fire and powder,Which, as they kiss, consume. The sweetest honeyIs loathsome in his own deliciousnessAnd in the taste confounds the appetite.Therefore love moderately. Long love doth so.Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

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Only Shakespeare shows a character warning against a doomed relationship.

Question 9

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".Lest each losethe other as they wandered separatelyacross the open fields, they were to meetat Ninus' tomb and hide beneath a treein darkness; for beside that tomb there stooda tall mulberry close to a cool spring,a tree well weighted down with snow-white berries.

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the setting of the meeting place

Question 10

Which lines from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" contain an example of characterization?

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If you searched all the East, you'd find no girl with greater charm than Thisbe;

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