1. The west African country lost most of there able-bodied people men
and woman to slave trade. 2. West Africa had more natural resources than
any other part
I don't think that your options match your tiles - you must have copied them wrong. I can only match iambic pentameter with D. each foot consists of one unstressed followed by a stressed syllable.
However, enjambment has nothing to do with the stress in syllables, but rather with the fact that some poets like to continue a sentence in a poem into the next line, without the use of commas or other pauses. Blank verse is a type of a verse that doesn't have a rhyme, and is made up of iambic pentameters.
The answer to the question is c)
The correct answer is C. He opened the field of literary criticism.
Apart from being a poet and a writer during the Romantic era of American literature, Edgar Allan Poe was also a critic. As a matter of fact, while he was alive, he wasn't really famous or celebrated as an author, but rather as a critic. Only after his death did people start appreciating his art, but it was too late - he died poor.