How does this quotation from Behn's Oroonoko most suggest its status as an early novel: "I do not pretend, in giving you the history of this Royal Slave, to entertain my reader with adventures of a feigned hero, whose life and fortunes fancy may manage at the poet's pleasure." ?
Correct answer: B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
- A. It focuses on a royal hero.
- B. It denies being imagined in favor of claims of realism.
- C. It focuses on adventures.
- D. It connects to poetry.
Explanation
Behn contrasts a supposedly real history with the invented adventures of a poet's hero, foregrounding the novel's claim to factual or documentary realism. That claim is a major feature of the early novel's identity.
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