Ovid: Lines 55-77

Ovid utilizes numerous figures of speech to enhance his poetry, in Pyramus and Thisbe. For example in line 64, Ovid writes: quoque magis tegitur, tectus magis aestuat ignis, meaning the more the fire is covered, the more, the fire burns, having been covered. Here, Ovid is using a chiasmus, the ABBA pattern. "A" refers to the adverb, magis meaning more, while tegitur is "B" is the verb meanging covered. A chiasmus reverses the order of modifiers to add interest to the sentence, as Ovid has done.
A second figure of speech can be viewed in line 68, when Ovid writes "primi vidistis amantes et vocis fecistis iter." The line means "You first saw lovers, and you made a pathway for speech." Here, Ovid is referring to the wall as "you." Therefore, since he is giving an inanimate object, the wall, a human characterstic, he is using personification. The wall "saw" lovers and "made a pathway" for speech. Since the wall is an inanimate object, it cannot complete the verbs Ovid describes above.
A last figure of speech Ovid uses is a rhetorical question. In line 66, Ovid writes "quid non sentit amor" meaning, "what doesn't love feel?" Since Ovid is not expecting an answer back to the question, he is using a rhetorical question.
Through only these three examples of figures of speech, it is clear that Ovid is a very talented writer, utilizing different strategies and figures of speech to enrich his poetry.