Which of the following best describes how epic poetry can emerge from oral tradition?

An illiterate poet makes up a song and someone else writes it down.

Stories are created and adapted from tradition, with individual poets changing parts of the story to suit their needs. Eventually, someone writes the story down.

An epic poem is written. Professional poets memorize the poems, and travel from city to city, reciting them to illiterate crowds.

None of the above-epic poetry cannot be adapted from oral tradition.

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Taryn Lambert

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23 October, 22:34

Which of the following best describes how epic poetry can emerge from oral tradition?

An illiterate poet makes up a song and someone else writes it down.

Stories are created and adapted from tradition, with individual poets changing parts of the story to suit their needs. Eventually, someone writes the story down.

An epic poem is written. Professional poets memorize the poems, and travel from city to city, reciting them to illiterate crowds.

None of the above-epic poetry cannot be adapted from oral tradition.

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Trace · Answer 1

The answer is the first sentence.

Lamar Wells · Answer 2

Although the first choice could be correct (poets like Homer were illiterate and others wrote them down), it seems too blunt. So I would choose the second one. An example of an epic poem that was created from tradition like this would be The Odyssey.