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..."
OD. "Whitman's poetry did not rhyme and did not fit into any formal category, it followed the free and energetic path of Whitman's own mind and emotions. Today we
call this informal structure free verse.
