Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1120 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Naming a Mode While Reading
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The idea
Ask what the passage would have to establish to succeed. If causes, it is cause and effect; if a boundary, extended definition; if a sequence, process. The mode follows from the burden the passage has taken on, and that burden is usually visible in its first sentences.
In practice
What must this passage establish.
Where people slip
The burden names the mode.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
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