17. A main purpose of the passage is to

　　delineate the function of the tlamatinime in Nahuatl society

　　explain the abstract philosophy of the Nahuatl thinkers

　　argue against a theory of poetic expression by citing evidence about the Nahuatl

　　explore the rich metaphorical heritage the Nahuatl received from the Toltecs

　　describe some conceptual and aesthetic resources of the Nahuatl language

　　18. According to the passage, some abstract universal ideas can be expressed in Nahuatl by

　　taking away from a word any reference to particular instances

　　removing a word from its associations with other words

　　giving a word a new and opposite meaning

　　putting various meaningful elements together in one word

　　turning each word of a phrase into a poetic metaphor

　　19. It can be inferred solely from the information in the passage that

　　there are many languages that, like Greek or German, allow extensive compounding

　　all abstract universal ideas are ideas of complex relations

　　some record or evidence of the thought of the tlamatinime exists

　　metaphors are always used in Nahuatl to express abstract conceptual relationships

　　the abstract terms of the Nahuatl language are habitually used in poetry

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