With which text is the term mock-epic most closely associated ?
Correct answer: B. Pope's Rape of the Lock
- A. Wordsworth's "We Are Seven"
- B. Pope's Rape of the Lock
- C. Swift's "A Modest Proposal"
- D. Benn's Oroonoko
Explanation
A mock-epic applies the grand conventions and elevated style of epic to a trivial or comic subject. Pope's The Rape of the Lock turns a minor social quarrel over a lock of hair into an artificial epic adventure.
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