An Epic Quizzizz

An Epic Quizizz

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Multiple Choice

How many subgenres does the Epic have?

• 4

• 5

• 3

• 2

Multiple Choice

An epic...

• can be real or imaginary. It shows free will. The characters are deeply human.

• is story in which gods add an ingredient of grandeur.

• keeps the heroic environment without gods.

Multiple Choice

An epic poem...

• can be real or imaginary. It shows free will. The characters are deeply human.

• is story in which gods add an ingredient of grandeur.

• keeps the heroic environment without gods.

Multiple Choice

A chanson de geste...

• can be real or imaginary. It shows free will. The characters are deeply human.

• is story in which gods add an ingredient of grandeur.

• keeps the heroic environment without gods.

Multiple Select

Who used to sing Epic poems?

• singers

• bards

• aoidoi

• actors

Multiple Choice

What strategies did they use to get people's attention?

• They played music.

• They made the story more attractive.

• They asked for food.

Multiple Choice

Why is the written version so important?

• It gave the story order and coherence.

• To make a difference between songs and literature.

• To highlight the importance of the hero.

Multiple Choice

Why is the Epic so popular?

• Because it sells a lot. People spend money buying superheroes stuff.

• Because people like adventures. They enjoy heroic acts. They liked excesive grandeur.

• Because people enjoy watching people suffering a lot.

The textbook says that:

"the main objective of written art is beauty, and this must be made known so that the world in which we live is kinder and less adverse." (page 68)

Open Ended

How does Epic make the world kinder?

Multiple Choice

The Epic consists of four parts, which are...

• greeting, problem, climax, and the end.

• invocation, greeting, preamble, and ending.

• invocation, greeting, climax, and ending.

• invocation, preamble, development, and ending.

Multiple Choice

What do Chanson de geste and epic poems have in common?

• They both have a setting, core, climax, and ending.

• They both have myths.

• They both have a love story.

Multiple Select

An Epic hero...

• is the masculine ideal

• is always fighting to get his/her own survival

• achieves the imposible.

• destroy his/her enemy

• is in love.

The textbook says...

"It is an ancient time that privileges the imagination of men, without specific time or space; a time that does not obey rationality or history, in which belief, tradition, legend, great gods, vigorous heroes and hidden mythological enigmas prevail." (page 105)

Open Ended

How does the previous sentence apply in modern epic fictions?