Aristotle argues that poetry is

Read the following passage carefully and choose the most appropriate answer to the question out of the four alternatives.

All art is, in an important sense, an escape. There is a sense in which the capacity to escape from
his present experience, to use his accumulated consciousness of the past to project a vision of the
future, is man's greatest and distinguishing ability. We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they
ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming.

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Correct answer: A

Explanation

The correct answer is option 1 i.e. valuable.

It is clearly mentioned in the passage that "We must not forget the force of Aristotle's argument that poetry is valuable precisely because it shows men not simply as they are, but as they
ought to be or (in terms more sympathetic to us today) as they are capable of becoming."

Hence, the chosen option will be correct.

SSC CGL 2017 PYQ — Question 68