Arrange the following in the decreasing order of their scope of meaning. Choose the correct answer from the options given below.

In decreasing breadth of meaning the order runs Literature, Poetry, Sonnet, Verse.

Literature is the widest class, embracing every form of written art.

Poetry is a narrower division lying wholly inside literature.

A sonnet is a specific poetic form falling under poetry.

Verse here is treated as the narrowest, a particular metrical unit within such forms.

Ranking from the most inclusive term to the least gives literature down to verse.