Question

How do poets address the first stage of loss, the lament, in elegies?

a. by glorifying and extolling the virtues of the honorable dead
b. by expressing grief and heartbreak over a person who has died
c. by seeking a sense of closure or solace about a death
d. by calmly accepting the fact that death is the final stage of life

Answer 1

b. by expressing grief and heartbreak over a person who has died

Answer 2

B. By expressing grief and heartbreak over a person who has died.

A lament is a passionate expression of sorrow, it means to mourn someone. B is the answer that most closely fits what it means to lament, as it is not calm, nor does it attempt to glorify something. Therefore B is correct.