I think the answer is c. gerund
I think it is B because the reader knows what is happening but the character doesn’t.
<em><u>Answer:</u></em>
One possible reason that the Revolutionary-era poets used the <u>iambic</u> meter was to imitate the <u>classical</u> style.
<u><em>Explanation:</em></u>
As the Revolutionary-era poets were inspired Classical era, they wrote using the iambic meter, which consists on two syllables where the first one was unstressed, and the one following it was stressed.