LSAT 104 – Section 1 – Question 20

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December 1998

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve This gives you an idea of how this question is “curved”— in other words, what level of scorer is likely to get this question right. It shows a model of scaled LSAT score vs probability of getting the question correct. It is based on student test results for each question. The gray bar extends from the score for a 25% chance, to the score for a 75% chance of getting the question correct. The black line in the middle is the score for a 50% chance of getting the question correct. The percentage at the right is the expected chance of someone with the same score as you on that PrepTest getting that question correct	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT104 S1 Q20	+LR	Most strongly supported +MSS Conditional Reasoning +CondR	A 3% 161 B 3% 164 C 59% 170 D 28% 166 E 7% 163	152 164 177	+Hardest	149.106 +SubsectionMedium

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A poem is any work of art that exploits some of the musical characteristics of language, such as meter, rhythm, euphony, and rhyme. A novel, though it may be a work of art in language, does not usually exploit the musical characteristics of language. A symphony, though it may be a work of art that exploits the musical characteristics of sounds, rarely involves language. A limerick, though it may exploit some musical characteristics of language, is not, strictly speaking, art.

Summary

If any work of art exploits some of the musical characteristics of language, then it is a poem. A novel does not usually exploit the musical characteristics of language, but it may be a work of art. A symphony rarely involves language, but it may exploit the musical characteristics of sounds. A limerick is not art, but it may exploit some musical characteristics of language.

Strongly Supported Conclusions

If a novel is a work of art and exploits some of the musical characteristics of language, then it is a poem.

If a creation is neither a poem, nor a novel, nor a symphony, then it is not a work of art.

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know if a work of art must either be a poem, novel, or a symphony.

An example of so-called blank verse, which does not rhyme, is not really a poem.

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know what types of works, if any, are not poems. We only know from the stimulus a sufficient condition for a work being a poem.

If a novel exploits meter and rhyme while standing as a work of art, then it is both a novel and a poem.

This answer is strongly supported. We know from the stimulus that a work of art that exploits at least some of the musical characteristics of language are poems. Meter and rhyme are musical characteristics of language.

Limericks constitute a nonartistic type of poetry.

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know what conditions are sufficient for a work to be a nonartistic type of poetry.

If a symphony does not exploit the musical characteristics of sound, then it is not a work of art.

This answer is unsupported. We don’t know that if a symphony is a work of art, that it must exploit the musical characteristics of sound. We only know that symphonies rarely involve language and sometimes exploit the musical characteristics of sound.

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