Your Text Describes a Study in Which 200-Word Poems Were

Multiple Choice

Your text describes a study in which 200-word poems were memorized more quickly than were 200-word prose passages, which in turn were memorized more quickly than were 200 nonsense syllables. That participants memorized poetry more quickly than prose may reflect the sound features one finds in poetry, such as rhyme and meter. Poetry, then, may allow one to take advantage not only of meaning, but also of distinctive _____ codes when one is trying to memorize it.

A) eidetic
B) visual
C) phonological
D) semantic