Question

Before the beginning of John Milton’s epic, Paradise Lost, Satan and the fallen angels have been expelled from heaven. How does picking up the story after this major event follow the convention of epic form?

A. An epic begins in media res.

B. An epic begins with an invocation.

C. An epic begins with a famous battle.

D. An epic begins with an extended simile.

Answer 1

a

Step-by-step explanation:

Answer 2

Picking up the story after a major event in it, like the expulsion of Satan and the fallen angels from heaven, follows the tradition of an epic beginning media res, in the middle of things. Homer did this first in the Iliad and the Odyssey.