Instructions

In the following passage, some words have been deleted. Read the passage carefully and select the most appropriate option to fill in each blank.

When he was in college, a famous poet made a useful distinction for him. He had drunk ( 1) _________ in the poet's company to be compelled to describe to him a poem he was (2) _________ of. It would be a monologue of sorts, the self-contemplation of a student on a summer afternoon who is reading Euphuise. The poem itself would be a subtle (3) _________ of euphuisms, translating the heat, the day, the student's concerns, into symmetrical posies; translating even his (4) _________ and boredom with that famously foolish book into a euphuism.
The poet nodded his big head in a sympathetic, rhythmic way as this was (5) _________ to him, then told him that there are two kinds of poems. There is the kind you write; there is the kind you talk about in bars. Both kinds have value and both are poems; but it's fatal to confuse them.

Question 99

Select the most appropriate option to fill in blank no. 4.


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