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Read the excerpts from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe" and Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

"Pyramus and Thisbe"

Now Thisbe takes
great care, that none detect her as she makes
her way out from the house amid the dark;
her face is veiled; she finds the tomb; she sits
beneath the tree they'd chosen for their tryst.

Romeo and Juliet

JULIET: How if, when I am laid into the tomb,
I wake before the time that Romeo
Come to redeem me? There’s a fearful point.
Shall I not then be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
And there die strangled ere my Romeo comes?
Or, if I live, is it not very like
The horrible conceit of death and night,
Together with the terror of the place—
As in a vault, an ancient receptacle
Where for this many hundred years the bones
Of all my buried ancestors are packed.

Which choice best compares the excerpts of "Romeo and Juliet" to "Pyramus and Thisbe?"

A. Both excerpts have the characters patiently waiting for an event.

B. Both excerpts use an outdoor setting that is bright and colorful.

C. Both excerpts use a tomb to hint at the tragic fate of the characters.

D. Both excerpts use several characters to move the action forward.

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