Answer: The right answer is the C) Using an innocent questioner and a wise respondent.
Explanation: It must be stressed that options B and D are wrong, since this ballad uses the verse format (with a <em>abcb </em>rhyme scheme) and its subject matter is definitely not a celebration, but a very tragical event - the death of a child in the bombing of a church in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1963. Ballads do feature a question-answer format, which helps to build up suspense and maintain the reader's interest and engagement. In this particular example, the innocent questioner is a small child, and the wise respondent is his mom, who attempts, to no avail, to dissuade him from attending the Freedom March.
As·ser·tion (ə-sûr′shən)n.1. The act of asserting.2. Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at <span>proof.</span>
The origin of this nickname is often disputed, but many believe it originated in the 1920s from John J. Fitz Gerald, a sports writer for the New York Morning Telegraph
Answer:free verse with long, flowing sentences
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