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Read the introduction to Dan DeLuca's argument.
Bob Dylan is the songwriter who opened up the doors of
possibility to all who followed. He was the mysterious
bard with a guitar who sent out a clarion call-first as the
acoustic Voice of His Generation, then as the plugged-in
rocker who remained a master of the unexpected for five
decades that the words pop singers sang were worthy
of being taken seriously.
"Dylan was a revolutionary," Bruce Springsteen said in
his 1988 speech inducting Dylan into the Rock and Roll
Hall of Fame. "The way that Elvis freed your body, Bob
freed your mind." Early masterpieces such as "A Hard
Rain's A-Gonna Fall" and "Visions Of Johanna" and "Like
A Rolling Stone" fueled a debate: Are rock lyrics poetry?
The answer must be yes, because on Thursday, Dylan
was awarded the highest honor for a writer: the Nobel
Prize in literature. The Swedish Academy, in making him
Which statement summarizes DeLuca's claim?
O "The way that Elvis freed your body, Bob freed your
mind."
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O "He was the mysterious bard with a guitar."
O "He was ... a master of the unexpected for five
decades."
O "The Swedish Academy... cited him for 'having
created new poetic expressions within the great
American song tradition."
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