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