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Question 5 • Literature and Composition III

Read the excerpt from "Poetry." I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle. Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one discovers that there is in it after all, a place for the genuine. What is the meaning of the word “contempt” in this context?

Answer
A
scorn
B
appreciation
C
indifference
D
misunderstanding
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