Read the excerpt from "mending wall." we keep the wall between us as we go. to each the boulders that have fallen to each. and some are loaves and some so nearly balls we have to use a spell to make them balance: "stay where you are until our backs are turned! " we wear our fingers rough with handling them. oh, just another kind of out-door game, one on a side. it comes to little more: there where it is we do not need the wall: he is all pine and i am apple orchard. what feature of this excerpt makes it blank verse?
a. it has iambic pentameter.
b. it has a rhyming pattern.
c. it is about nature.
d. it does not use everyday language.

A. It has iambic pentameter.  

Explanation:

the excerpt has iambic pentameter , as this is the only characteristic for blank verse  out of the options given.  

Blank verse is a kind of verse that has no rhyming pattern. It is the most widely recognized verse in English, and it is regularly written in iambic pentameter.

It has an iambic pentameter.

Further Explanation:

The mending wall was a poem that was written by Robert Frost who was an American poet. This poem depicts the story of a drawn from New England in which the narrator of the poem contacts his neighbor every summer in order to mend a wall that works as a border between their homes.  

The Excerpt from the above-given line is in an Iambic pentameter which makes it a blank verse. Blank verse is a literary device that is in un-rhyming in pattern and many times it is written in an unrhymed iambic parameter of lines and ten syllables. These syllables are constructed and structured as stressed syllables follow unstressed ones.  

The other options which are given in the above question cannot be right because the blank verse does not rhyme and they are not necessarily written in the everyday language. There is no boundary which if on the topic of the blank verse.

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Answer Details:

Grade: High School

Chapter: Mending Wall

Subject: English

Keywords: Mending Wall, Neighbour, Narrator, Replace, Rocks, Mending, Instigate, Old-Stone, Mindlessly, Fallen.  

a.) literature that explores grotesque characters and eerie, violent occurrences in a dreary setting.

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explanation:

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