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?

The mulberry tree is more than part of the setting: Thisbe asks it to keep its dark fruit as a lasting sign of the lovers’ deaths. That gives the tree symbolic meaning, making D the best answer. The excerpt does not rely on patterned rhyme, describe a rhythmic song, or use a simile comparing a tree to death.

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