【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．(A) apocryphal … prehistoric

B．(B) preliterate … galvanic
C．(C) auditory… insipid
D．(D) succinct… abrupt
E．(E) scholarly… abstract