Answer:
1. B
. The epic starts the narrative in the middle of the story.
2. B
. The poem was passed from person to person by word of mouth without being written down.
3.
A
. Below, the fields of cotton, fleecy-white, / Are spreading like a mighty flock of sheep. (lines 3–4)
B
. October robes the weeds in purple gowns; (line 6)
C
. In vain October woos her to remain / Within the palace of his scarlet bowers.
Explanation:
In medias res is Latin for “in the midst of things”, and refers to beginning an epic by going straight to a significant situation in the story that is the continuation of earlier events that will be explained later.
Oral tradition refers to the stories that were verbally passed from one generation to another without being written.
A metaphor is a figure of speech that uses a word to describe something to which it is not applicable.
