PrepTest 83, Section 3, Question 15
There is a popular view among literary critics that a poem can never be accurately paraphrased because a poem is itself the only accurate expression of its meaning. But these same critics hold that their own paraphrases of particular poems are accurate. Thus, their view that poetry cannot be accurately paraphrased is false.
There is a popular view among literary critics that a poem can never be accurately paraphrased because a poem is itself the only accurate expression of its meaning. But these same critics hold that their own paraphrases of particular poems are accurate. Thus, their view that poetry cannot be accurately paraphrased is false.
There is a popular view among literary critics that a poem can never be accurately paraphrased because a poem is itself the only accurate expression of its meaning. But these same critics hold that their own paraphrases of particular poems are accurate. Thus, their view that poetry cannot be accurately paraphrased is false.
There is a popular view among literary critics that a poem can never be accurately paraphrased because a poem is itself the only accurate expression of its meaning. But these same critics hold that their own paraphrases of particular poems are accurate. Thus, their view that poetry cannot be accurately paraphrased is false.
The reasoning in the argument is most vulnerable to the criticism that the argument
presupposes the falsity of the view that it sets out to refute
takes for granted that the main purpose of poems is to convey information rather than express feelings
takes for granted that a paraphrase of a poem cannot be useful to its readers unless it accurately expresses a poem's meaning
provides no justification for favoring one of the literary critics' beliefs over the other
provides no justification for following one particular definition of "paraphrase"
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