One possible reason that the revolutionary-era poets used the a. trochaic b. spondaic c. iambic d. anapestic meter was to imitate the a. romantic b. british c. classical d. dramatic

The correct answers are C. iambic and C. Classical.

Poets during the era of Classicism liked writing their poems using the iambic meter. This means that their words consisted of two syllables where the first one was unstressed, and the one following it was stressed. Given that the Revolutionary-era poets were inspired by the Classical era, they wanted to replicate the style of its poets, so they also wrote in iambs.

the narrator closes the lantern tightly so the old man is

not awakened by the bright light

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