What is free verse?
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: C. Poetry with no regular rhyme or fixed metre
- Step 1: Free means free of fixed rules.
- Step 2: Free verse does not follow a regular rhyme scheme or metre.
Answer
Poetry with no regular rhyme or fixed metre.
Why not the others: Poetry that is given away without charge: this confuses 'free' with cost. Poetry that rhymes in every line: that is the opposite of free verse. Poetry that is written only for children: free verse is not linked to age.
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