Alexander Pope’s 'The Rape of the Lock' is a definitive example of which Neoclassical genre?
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Correct answer: Mock-Heroic Epic
A mock-heroic poem applies the grand language and conventions of classical epics (like 'The Iliad') to a trivial subject. Pope uses this to satirize the vanity and pettiness of the 18th-century aristocracy.
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