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Robert Frost is canonically known for:

  1. Polemical political tracts only
  2. Surrealist prose poems
  3. New England rural settings + colloquial speech in metrical verse
  4. Pastoral elegies in Latin
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Correct answer: C. New England rural settings + colloquial speech in metrical verse

1. Frost is a major 20th-century American poet of rural New England. 2. He uses colloquial diction inside formal metrical structures. 3. The brief names him within the American Lit bucket. _Source: Coverage brief — American canon — "American Literature — ... Frost"_

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Robert Frost's settings are typically:

  1. Frontier West
  2. Rural New England
  3. Antebellum South
  4. Urban New York
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Correct answer: B. Rural New England

1. Frost's New England poems are canonical. 2. He combined colloquial diction with formal metre. 3. Examples include 'Birches' and 'Mending Wall.' _Source: Coverage brief — BA English Literature syllabus areas — "Frost — New England rural settings + colloquial speech"_

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