A student is writing about characteristics of the Enlightenment period found in Alexander Pope’s An Essay on Man.

Pope writes An Essay on Man in heroic couplets, pairs of rhyming lines that commonly use iambic pentameter. This orderly structure helps emphasize the poem’s ideas, which reflect the Enlightenment’s interest in reason and rational thought. Choice A misdefines iambic pentameter and incorrectly characterizes the poem as focused on traditional family values.

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