Question

question 8
instructions
read the question carefully and select the best answer.
which sentence from the excerpt best supports the correct answer to question 7?
a. \it is not surprising that free - verse poetry rose to popularity during the american romantic period when artists sought to reject the restrictive customs of the past in order to embrace liberation, individualism, imagination, intuition, and spiritual transcendence.\
b. \according to emerson, the highest form of language was the language of nature, which incorporated symbols related to the natural world as well as synecdoche, or the use of a part to represent the whole or vice versa.\
c. \walt whitman popularized the use of free verse, which has become one of the most frequently used forms of poetry in american literature and has been practiced, either on the whole or in part, by many american poets.\
d. \whitmans poetry did not rhyme and did not fit into any formal category. it followed the free and energetic path of whitmans own mind and emotions. today we call this informal structure free verse.\

Explanation:

To answer this, one would need to know the correct answer to Question 7. However, analyzing the options: Option A links free - verse poetry to the ideals of the American Romantic period like liberation and individualism which could potentially support an answer related to the characteristics or trends of Romanticism.

Answer:

A. "It is not surprising that free - verse poetry rose to popularity during the American Romantic period when artists sought to reject the restrictive customs of the past in order to embrace liberation, individualism, imagination, intuition, and spiritual transcendence."