Lines 105-127
In lines 105-127 of Pyramus and Thisbe, I have seen them sneak out of the city to meet each other at a designated place. Unfortunately, however, Pyramus comes across Thibe's veil and assumes she's dead. Therefore, he kills himself. Throughout these lines of poetry, there are some forms of figures of speech.
For example, around lines 108 and 109, Pyramus uses personification by saying, "My heart is guilty." This is personification because obviously his heart cannot literally be guilty. We only say things like this because for some reason, we all buy into the fact that our heart contains our emotions, rather than our brain. Heart sounds a little more poetic, I guess. Another FOS used is around lines 117 and 118 when Pyramus says to the lioness (who is not there), "Receive now a drink of my blood also!" This FOS is apostrophe. It is apostrophe because even though Pyramus is addressing the sword, the sword is an inanimate object. He may also be addressing something/someone else, but he does not make it clear as to whom he is addressing.
A third FOS used in this poem is around lines 120 and 121. Here, Ovid writes, "...blood spurts upward, not unlike that of a faulty lead pipe..." This figure of speech is litotes, because it is saying that it is not exactly like blood spurting from a pipe, yet it uis not exactly unlike it either.
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