【单选题】

Reading the epic known to us as the Iliad is vastly different from the______experience of hearing and seeing it performed, for in place of the bard’s______flow of sound and image, the reader beholds a mute tome, the size of longish novel.

A、apocryphal … prehistoric
B、preliterate … galvanic
C、auditory… insipid
D、succinct… abrupt
E、scholarly… abstract