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In the Italian sonnet, the____ contains the answer to the problem presented in the____.

a. sestet
b. octave
c. quatrain

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In the Italian sonnet, the sestet contains the answer to the problem presented in the octave.

Step-by-step explanation:

The Italian sonnet (created by various Renaissance poets and brought to perfection, arguably, by Petrarch) is composed of an octave, where the writer presents a problem, a proposition or a question, and then on the last lines of the poem, the sestet, the writer, after the turning point in the ninth line, develops a resolution.

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