Which of the following best defines alliterative verse ?
Correct answer: A. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
- A. A traditional form with repeated consonant sounds
- B. An Anglo-Saxon form written in iambic pentameter with traditional rhymes
- C. A popular form in the 9th and 10th centuries
- D. A form brought to England in the years during the Norman invasion
Explanation
Alliterative verse organizes poetry around repeated consonant sounds, especially at the beginnings of stressed words. Iambic pentameter and end-rhyme belong to later metrical traditions, not to the defining structure of Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse.
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