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Multiple choices
Tip
: use the key words in the question to help you find the right part of the text. Read the whole
of the part and consider all four options.
Example
Here is a part of a text about poetry and one of the questions.
Poetry is notoriously difficult to define. It is often regarded as the most personal of literary
forms. In which the poet pours out his or her soul in an effusion of feeling. Yet there numerous
examples impassioned pose. Bothe fiction and polemic. Until a century ago most poetry – in
English. at least used rhythm and rhyme , and the listener – for poetry is easily intended to be
hard – could industry recognize it as poetry rather than pose. Twentieth century developments
have put paid to the utility of this distinction when characterizing poetry as a hole, and
incidentally, given several generation the mistaken belief that poetry is necessarily hard to
understand. The defining characteristic of poetry, surely, is that it evokes and heightens joy,
sorrow, fear or myriad other emotions and provides catharsis, the release of emotional tension.
Q. In the writer’s opinion the main difference between poetry and other literature lies in:
A.
the amount of effort it requires from the reader
B.
its use of rhythm and rhyme
C.
its effects on the reader
D.
the extent to which it reflects the writer’s feelings.
Answer: C
Explanation: the underlined and highlighted parts of the text show that C is correct because this
is writer’s opinion. Remember the question as you read each option. D refers to the sentence
beginning it is often regarded as, but this is not the writer’s opinion. A is incorrect because it
says it is a mistaken belief and B is also incorrect because it says that poetry no longer
necessarily uses rhythm and rhyme.
Pay attention to phrases like “in the writer’s opinion” in the questions as the text may include
several different points of view.
