Fables often endure due to their (i)____________, often telling one simple narrative, based around one character. This is both by design, because direct statements are more easily remembered than florid ones, and by accident, as fables are passed from teller to teller, (ii)____________ details fall away, leaving only the essential story. A. bombast B. superfluous C. objectivity D. requisite E. simplicity F. apocryphal