Question

read the excerpt from gilgamesh: a new english version. at four hundred miles they stopped to eat, at a thousand miles they pitched their camp. they had traveled for just three days and nights, a six weeks journey for ordinary men. when the sun was setting, they dug a well, they filled their waterskins with fresh water, gilgamesh climbed to the mountaintop, he poured out flour as an offering and said, \mountain, bring me a favorable dream.\ which feature of epic poetry does this excerpt most clearly show? a courageous hero who answers a call to adventure a journey filled with many challenges a vast setting of distant landscapes supernatural forces, such as gods or monsters, that intervene

Explanation:

The excerpt describes traveling long - distances (hundreds and thousands of miles), which implies a vast setting of distant landscapes. There is no clear mention of a call to adventure, challenges, or supernatural forces intervening.

Answer:

C. a vast setting of distant landscapes