Please help!! Which of these is NOT a characteristic of an epic? The characters are ordinary, everyday people
It uses a ornate diction.
Supernatural beings, such as gods and goddesses, intervene in the lives of the characters.
It uses rich figurative language.
The setting is large-scale and vast, often spanning to other words or realms.

Excerpt from jane eyre charlotte bronte 2 i was glad of it: i never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight, with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened by the chidings of bessie, the nurse, and humbled by the consciousness of my physical inferiority to eliza, john, and georgiana reed.