Assertion: Linguistic intelligence is highly developed in poets and writers.

Reasoning: Individuals with linguistic intelligence have the ability to use language fluently and create linguistic images in their minds.

Both Assertion and Reasoning are true, and the Reasoning is the correct explanation of the Assertion.

The assertion states that linguistic intelligence is highly developed in poets and writers, which is true. The reasoning explains that individuals with linguistic intelligence have the ability to use language fluently and create linguistic images in their minds, supporting the assertion.

Linguistic (an ability to produce and use language) : It is the capacity to use language fluently and flexibly to express one’s thinking and understand others. Persons high on this intelligence are ‘word-smart’, i.e. they are sensitive to different shades of word meanings, are articulate, and can create linguistic images in their mind. Poets and writers are very strong in this component of intelligence.