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Which of the following literary elements is a defining characteristic of heroic couplets?

free verse


extended metaphor

internal rhyme


iambic pentameter

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Step-by-step explanation:

A heroic couplet is always rhymed and is usually in iambic pentameter (although there is some variation of the meter). The heroic couplet is also usually closed, meaning that both lines are end-stopped (by some type of punctuation), and the lines are a self-contained grammatical unit.

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