Poetry's never complete without rhetorical devices, and Ovid throws plenty at his reader in the first several lines in Pyramas and Thisbe.
One that shows itself immediately is a chiasmus. Ovid describes Pyramus and Thisbe as iuvenum pulcherrimus alter | altera...praelata puellis - "one the most handsome of all the young men, the other the most preferred of all the girls."
A second one is a rhetorical question inserted almost randomly in a long sentence. While talking about the crack in the wall that no one had noticed since the wall was built, Ovid asks quid non sentis amor? - "What does love not notice?" It is clearly a rhetorical question because nowhere does Ovid imply that he actually wants or needs an answer.
Yet another rhetorical device that follows the last one is personification. Ovid addresses the wall as he says primi vidistis amantes, et voics fecistis iter - "You saw these lovers first, and you created a pathway for speech." Walls neither see nor create "pathways for speech." Ovid is giving the wall anthropomorphic qualities.
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