The rime of the ancient Mariner is a ballad stanza and the rest are blank verse
If you want an explanation:
A blank verse doesn’t rhyme and a ballad does
First of all, you need to know what an appositive is.
It is a noun or a noun phrase that is used to modify, or refer to another noun which is usually located next to the appositive. In this case, the appositive phrase is Lucinda Gonzalez, because it modifies the noun <em>student.</em>
I believed the answer is D: past
The answer would be A, as the author is explicitly stating what the characteristics are, which is another way of being direct.