Answer:
The technique used by Alexander Pope in The R*pe of the Lock is mock-epic genre.
Explanation:
"The Ra-pe of the Lock" is a mock-epic (a technique used by Pope) poem written by Alexander Pope. Pope has written the verse in heroic couplets.
Pope named his poem as "an heroi-comical poem".
Mock-epic is a form of satire in which trivial matters or subjects are dealt in an elevated heroic style. <u>This dealing of the trivial matters in a heroic style creates the humor in this technique of mock-epic</u>. This genre does not mock the epics but rather the subject by giving it a form of epic.
<u>The poem deals with a true incident of trivial matter; the stolen locks of a young woman. Because of this conflict between two families started, which Pope resembled that of the war of Greeks and Trojan. </u>
Because she is wary of strangers who might falsely claim to be her husband
The answer would be letter A
