单项选择题

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