Which of these poems is not an epic?
a. the odyssey
b. paradise lost
c. the aenid
d. piers plowman

D. Piers Plowman.

Explanation:

Piers Plowman is an allegorical poem by William Langland and except for this one the other three exemplifies the famous epics worldwide where "The Odyssey" is a classical (Greek) epic poem by Homer, "Paradise Lost" is a seventeenth-century epic poem by John Milton and "The Aeneid" is a Latin epic poem by Virgil. The epic poems illustrate a long narrative poem with a vast setting, superhuman characters, supernatural elements, etc. to tell the heroic tales or impart a moral lesson(as Milton to justify the way of Gods) which are culturally significant. Thus, except for the last one all three are epic poems.

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eli whitney was an american inventor best known for inventing the cotton gin. this was one of the key inventions of the industrial revolution and shaped the economy of the antebellum south.