Multiple choice

Directions: For the given question, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks to best complete the text.

Division of a work of art into __(i), as a poem into scenes, episodes, similes, sentences, or a picture into single figures and objects, background, foreground, etc. _(ii)_____ the work, as dividing the organism into heart, brain, nerves, muscles and so on, turns the living being into a corpse.

  1. certitude

  2. dogmatism

  3. credence

  4. softness

  5. reassurance

Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

(1) What follow the blank are parts, not groups. Fragmenting the art is the opposite of grouping. (2) United they stand; divided they fall. It is as true of artwork as it is of body organs. You can't divide these into 'Parts'. (3) What follow the blank are parts, not groups. We divide into parts not in areas. (4) The fragmentation completely destroys or annihilates the work. (5) The fragmentation completely destroys; it does not extirpate or root out. (6) The fragmentation completely destroys; it does not 'only disrupt'.