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

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

Which words reveal the pace of the story? Select 3 options.

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.

Read the excerpt from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.Juliet: Ay me!Romeo: She speaks:O, speak again, bright angel! for thou artAs glorious to this night, being o'er my headAs is a winged messenger of heavenUnto the white-upturned wondering eyesOf mortals that fall back to gaze on himWhen he bestrides the lazy-pacing cloudsAnd sails upon the bosom of the air.

Read the poem.Friends crouched lowWithout wordsBefore she came.Stifled gigglesHushed and shushedAnd waited.Finally,the door swung wideSurprise!

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

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.

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.

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

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

Which lines from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" establish setting?

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.

Which words reveal the pace of the story? Select 3 options.

Read the excerpts from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet."Pyramus and Thisbe”She recognizedher own shawl and his dagger's ivory sheath.She cried: "Dear boy, you died by your own hand:your love has killed you. But I, too, commandthe force to face at least this task: I canclaim love, and it will give me strength enoughto strike myself.I'll follow you in death;and men will say that I—unfortunate—was both the cause and comrade of your fate.Nothing but death could sever you from me;but now death has no power to prevent my joining you. I call upon his parentsand mine; I plead for him and me—do notdeny to us—united by true love,who share this fatal moment—one same tomb.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, that men rememberthe death we met together.”Romeo and JulietGregory: Say better; here comes one of my master's kinsmen.Sampson: Yes, better, sir.Abraham: You lie.Sampson: Draw, if you be men.--Gregory, remember thy swashing blow.[They fight.][Enter BENVOLIO.]Benvolio: Part, fools! put up your swords; you know not what you do.[Beats down their swords.]