June 1998 LSAT - Section 1 - Question 11
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The observations of the English poet Alexander Pope seemed as applicable in 1970 as they had been when he wrote them in 1715:Ross-Rinehart February 14, 2022
That’s a great explanation, jingjingxiao11111@gmail.com! I’ll add a few more points. First, (B) is incorrect because the first paragraph never suggests that poets ever emphasized these peripheral, non-poetic issues of Homer’s works. It only said that “specialists” (line 11) and “scholars” (lines 14, 15) were emphasizing these points. Second, as a general tip for these Role of Detail questions, always think about the primary argument the author is driving home in the paragraph in which the detail appears. In the first paragraph, the author really hammers home the point that scholars were only writing about “non-poetic” aspects of Homer’s work post-1935. The correct answer will have to relate to that point. And that point, combined with the line “The observations of the English poet Alexander Pope seemed as applicable in 1970 …” that jingjingxiao11111@gmail.com identified, make (C) the only viable answer here.