Chaucer was a master of the heroic couplet which consists of two rhyming lines in iambic pentameter. Iambic pentameter means_______.
A.
the line has 6 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
B.
the line has 6 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable
C.
the l in e has 5 feet, and an unstressed syllable is followed by a stressed syllable
D.
the line has 5 feet, and a stressed syllable is followed by an unstressed syllable