单选题 Reading the epic known to us as the Iliad is vastly different from the______experience of hearing and seeing it performed, for in place of the bard's______flow of sound and image, the reader beholds a mute tome, the size of longish novel.

• (A) apocryphal … prehistoric
• (B) preliterate … galvanic
• (C) auditory… insipid
• (D) succinct… abrupt
• (E) scholarly… abstract