Self-study
Maria: Conclusion Popular music is bad art because Support it greatly exaggerates the role love plays in everyday life and thereby Support fails to represent reality accurately.
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Speaker 1 Summary
Maria says that popular music is bad art. Why? Because it fails to represent reality accurately by greatly exaggerating the role love plays in everyday life.
Speaker 2 Summary
Theo says that popular music serves other artistic functions, and is not supposed to reflect reality. He thinks that Maria should understand popular music before criticizing it.
Objective
We need a statement that Maria and Theo disagree on. They disagree whether art needs to represent reality accurately to be considered good art. Maria thinks popular music is bad art because it does not represent reality. Theo thinks that art can perform other artistic functions while not accurately representing reality.
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The dialogue provides the most ███████ ███ ███ █████ ████ █████ ███ ████ ████████ ████ ███████
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most good art ███████ █████████ █████████
Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. Maria limits her argument to popular music, and Theo broadly describes possible artistic functions. We don’t know what Maria or Theo believe about "most" good art.
b
some bad art ███████████ ███ ████ ████ █████ ██ ████████ ████
Theo does not express an opinion on this statement. We don’t know from the stimulus what Theo thinks bad art does, or even if Theo thinks that bad art exists.
c
art should always █████████ ███████ ██ ██ █████ ███ ███ ██ ██ ██
Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. We don’t know what Maria or Theo think about the relationship between art and "reality as it could be." Theo also doesn't express an opinion about what art should do.
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art need not █████████ ███████ ██████████ ██ ██ ████ ███
Maria and Theo disagree on this statement. Maria disagrees: she concludes popular music is bad art for the sole reason that it does not accurately represent reality. Theo agrees: he says that there are other possible artistic purposes.
e
popular music should ███ ██ ██████████ ██ ██ ██ ███ ████
Neither speaker expresses an opinion on this statement. Even when Maria says that popular music is bad art, that does not mean that she thinks popular music should not be considered art at all.