In Italian literature, which poetic metre is used by Ludovico Ariosto in Orlando Furioso and Torquato Tasso in Gerusalemme Liberata?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: B. Ottava rima
- Step 1: Both major Renaissance epic-chivalric poems are composed in ottava rima, consisting of eight eleven-syllable lines rhyming ABABABCC. Answer: Ottava rima. Why not the others: Terza rima was invented by Dante for the Commedia, and blank hendecasyllables became popular during Neoclassicism.
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