Read each description of a story, and then select the letter or letters of the elements it shares with an epic.
As the dragon breathed hot fire onto the Tower of Marshmallow, the knight had an idea. While the tower may have been the city’s most notorious landmark, certainly the tower’s days were now numbered. The dragon singed its spire, and it was beginning to droop to one side as it melted into a goopy blob. The knight coaxed the dragon closer to the tower, knowing that the sticky mess would make an easy trap. The people would be safe.
a. elevated language c. historic event
b. extraordinary hero d. defending from a threat