Question

Read the excerpt from Ovid’s "Pyramus and Thisbe".

Answer 1

Pyramus’s long speech slows the pace to prolong suspense.

Answer 2

The statement that best describes how the pace of the excerpt creates tension is: Pyramus’s long speech slows the pace to prolong suspense.

The speech, describing Pyramus's thoughts on her death and how guilty he feels about it, even going so far as to wish and call for his own death at the teeth of lions, creates tension by making the suspense of what will happen next last longer.