Question

Read the excerpt from the poem "Barbara Frietchie." Up rose old Barbara Frietchie then, Bowed with her fourscore years and ten; Bravest of all in Frederick town, She took up the flag the men hauled down; How do the rhyming couplets move the action forward? by including descriptive details about setting by connecting important plot points by illustrating the author's purpose by using the same number of syllables

Answer 1

b. by connecting important plot points

Explanation:

• Barbara Fretchie was a Unionist at the time of the Civil War. She became part of American folklore in part because of a a popular poem Barbara Frietchie written by John Greenleaf Whittier(an American poet and 19th-century abolitionist) in the year in 1863.
• The poem reveals that, in September 1862, the 95-year-old Fritchie had an American flag flying outside her residence as Confederate soldiers marched by, on their way west. The soldiers trained for a war to be waged in South Mountain and Antietam a couple of days later. Legend has it that the soldiers grabbed the flag and ripped it. Barbara Frietchie then took the flag and hung it out her second-story window.

Answer 2

Answer:

by illustrating the author's purpose

Explanation:

edge 2021