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Question 4 • Language Arts 9

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?

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