Ever its torn folds rose and fell on the loyal winds that loved it well; what is another way to describe the action in the rhyming couplet from the poem “barbara frietchie”? the flag was shaking in the dangerous storm. the flag went up and down in the wind. the flag went left and right, so it tore more. the flag was folded up and put away.

The correct answer is "The flag went up and down in the wind".

Explanation:

In the excerpt of the poem “Barbara Frietchie” by John Greenleaf Whittier herein shown, the author describes the movement that a flag has when the wind blew using a poetic language. The movement described was the flag going up and down. This can be noticed in the phrase "rose and fell", which uses the past tense form of the verbs rise and fall.