LSAT 140 – Section 2 – Question 14

LSAT 140 - Section 2 - Question 14

December 2013

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Question QuickView	Type	Tags	Answer Choices	Curve	Question Difficulty	Psg/Game/S Difficulty	Explanation
PT140 S2 Q14	+LR +Exp	Must be true +MBT	A 10% 158 B 79% 165 C 1% 157 D 10% 158 E 1% 151	140 150 160	+Medium	149.441 +SubsectionMedium

Professor: The most important function of epic poetry is to transmit the values by which a group of people is to live. This transmission is accomplished not by an explicit discussion of those values, but rather by their embodiment in heroic figures, who are presented as role models. Imitating those role models gives meaning and direction to the lives of those who hear the poems.

Summary

Epic poetry’s most important function is the transmission of the values by which a group of people is to live.

In epic poetry, values are not transmitted by explicit discussion.

In epic poetry, values are transmitted by their embodiment in heroic figures, who are presented as role models.

If people imitate the role models in epic poems, such people gain meaning and direction in their lives.

Notable Valid Inferences

Epic poetry accomplishes its most important function by embodying values in heroic figures, who are presented as role models.

An important function of poetry is to give meaning and direction to the lives of those who hear or read it.

Could be false. The stimulus only discusses one important function of poetry: the transmission of values. This might lead to people gaining life meaning and direction if they do decide to imitate the characters, but that’s not the explicit function as the stimulus describes it.

Epic poems accomplish their most important function by presenting heroic figures as role models.

Must be true. The stimulus explicitly states that the most important function of epic poems is to transmit values, and that the poems do so by presenting heroic figures as role models.

When values are represented in poetry, they are rarely if ever set forth explicitly.

Could be false. We know that epic poems do not transmit values via explicit discussion, but it’s possible that other kinds of poems do!

For many groups of people, heroic figures serve as role models embodying the values by which those people are to live.

Could be false. The stimulus does not say that many groups of people view heroic figures as role models; rather, it says that if a person does see a heroic figure as a role model and imitates that figure, that person could gain meaning and direction in their life.

Only epic poetry presents heroic figures as role models that, if imitated, give meaning and direction to the lives of those who hear it.

Could be false. The stimulus only discusses epic poetry. It does not claim that other kinds of poetry or art do not utilize the same techniques described here.

LSAT 140 – Section 2 – Question 14

LSAT 140 - Section 2 - Question 14

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