Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 11 AIL 1028 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"A Man of Realities"
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The idea
Chapter two opens naming him: Thomas Gradgrind, a man of realities, a man of facts and calculations, a man who proceeds on the principle that two and two are four and nothing over. Anaphora again, three times on a man of, and the name arrives after the portrait.
In practice
The name arrives after the portrait.
Where people slip
Anaphora again, three times.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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