Which literary approach reflects Reformation skepticism toward ornamentation?
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Correct answer: Plain style in both prose and poetry
Many Reformers distrusted ornate rhetoric as obscuring divine truth. This preference for clarity and plainness encouraged a simpler, more direct literary style in sermons, devotional prose, and religious poetry.
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