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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 11   AIL 1022 short lesson, about 20 seconds

The Eyes in Their Caves

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The idea

Dickens gives the forehead as a wall with the eyebrows for its base, and says the eyes found commodious cellarage in two dark caves overshadowed by it. Commodious cellarage is estate-agent language. The head has become a building, and the eyes are storage.

In practice

The head becomes a building.

Where people slip

The eyes are described as storage.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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