What is a sonnet?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: A. A fourteen-line poem
- Step 1: A sonnet has fourteen lines with a set rhyme scheme.
Answer
A fourteen-line poem.
Why not the others: A poem of six lines, A very long narrative poem and A poem with no rules don't fit.
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