Sunday, November 22, 2009

Pyramus and Thisbe

Ovid uses a rhetorical question in line 68. "What does love not percieve?" is a question that he does not expect an answer to. He uses the question to make the reader think.

In the same line he uses apostrophe. He directly addresses the wall when it is not really there. "- you saw the lovers first, /and you made a passage for their voices;"

He uses pleonasm in line 72. Ovid uses an excess of of words to express an idea. He does not need to use the word mouth when he says "gasping mouth" because the mouth is the only part of the body that can gasp.

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