In it's entirety lines 105-114 there is a lot of the alliteration of the letter v, "serius egressus vestigia vidit in alto" and " ut vero vestem quoque sanguine." This means that he is repeating the innitial consonant sound of the letter V. This may be to show the saddness of Pyramus.
In line 110 Ovid uses personification. When Pyramus says "My soul is guilty," his soul cannot really be guilty. He gave a quality of humans to something absract, his soul. This puts more emphasis on how guilty he actually is.
In line 114 he uses apostrophe. This means that the character is addressing someone or something that is not really there. Pyramus is asking "whatever lions under this rock" to kill him for what he thinks he did to Thisbe.
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