| 1. Epic ought to be composed in specifically literary dialect, to separate it from common speech. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 2. Epic verse ought not to rhyme. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 3. You long to return to the home you have been exiled from. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 4. A culture's central myths are the proper matter of epic. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 5. Well-rounded characters are essential to epic. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 6. Complex and multilayered allegory is proper to epic. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 7. You are a meticulous perfectionist. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 8. Epics need not relate martial events. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 9. You are constantly paranoid and afraid your poetry will offend religous authorities. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 10. You fear that your historical circumstances may prevent you from writing a great epic. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 11. The subject matter of an epic poem ought to be historical, but not recent. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 12. Human Monarchy is but despotism by another name. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 13. You often perform your poems from memory. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 14. Elements of chivalric romance can be elements of epic. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 15. A monarch that brings peace is no enemy of the public good. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 16. Vernacular languages are suitable instruments of epic. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 17. Repeated formulae heighten epic language. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 18. The stories of the Bible are proper matter for epic. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 19. Homer is the greatest poet of all time. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 20. Epic ought to be written in rhyming stanzas. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 21. Vergil is the greatest poet of all time. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 22. Some peoples are destined for empire and greatness. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 23. The corruption of the Church must be fixed. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 24. The epic narrative should be detached, detailed, and dispassionate. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
| 25. You Yearn to be free of the constraints of Aristrocratic Patronage. |
Disagree |
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Agree |
