Despite a tendency to be overtly ______, the poetry of the Middle Ages often sparks the imagination and provides lively entertainment, as well as pious sentiments.

Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold...

单项选择题Even though the folktales Perroult collected and retold were not solely French in origin, his versions of them were so decidedly French in style that later anthologies of French folktales have never ______ them.