Which pairing is correct?

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Which pairing is correct?

Matching authors to their works is being tested here. Leaves of Grass is by Walt Whitman, a landmark poetry collection first published in 1855 that helped transform American poetry with its use of free verse and expansive, democratic themes. The other pairings don’t fit because The Raven is by Edgar Allan Poe, a quintessential Gothic poem; Rip Van Winkle is by Washington Irving, a short story from The Sketch Book; and The Scarlet Letter is by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a novel about Puritan New England. Knowing these authors and their famous works helps place them in the right era and movement, making this pairing clear.

Matching authors to their works is being tested here. Leaves of Grass is by Walt Whitman, a landmark poetry collection first published in 1855 that helped transform American poetry with its use of free verse and expansive, democratic themes. The other pairings don’t fit because The Raven is by Edgar Allan Poe, a quintessential Gothic poem; Rip Van Winkle is by Washington Irving, a short story from The Sketch Book; and The Scarlet Letter is by Nathaniel Hawthorne, a novel about Puritan New England. Knowing these authors and their famous works helps place them in the right era and movement, making this pairing clear.

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