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.

The comparison of the blood to water shooting forcefully from a broken pipe creates a vivid, violent image. This figurative language emphasizes the brutality of the scene, so the correct choice is “The figurative language describes the violence of the scene.”

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