Which term means arranged according to time, typically starting in the past and moving toward the present?

• A. Prose
• B. Chronological
• C. Past Perfect Tense
• D. Lexical Choice

Answer: (B)

Think about how information is organized over time. Chronological describes arranging events in the order they occur, usually starting in the past and moving toward the present. It’s the word you’d use for a timeline or a history that traces events as they unfold, because it directly captures time order.

Prose refers to a style of writing rather than an order of events. Past Perfect Tense is a grammatical form used to show an action completed before another past action, not a method of arranging information. Lexical Choice is about which words a writer selects, not the sequence of events.

So the term that means arranged according to time is chronological.