Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1126 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Below the Decks
Captions available
The idea
Equiano writes that he was soon put down under the decks, and there received such a salutation in his nostrils as he had never experienced in his life. He reports what was done to him in the plain past tense of a witness giving an account.
In practice
The plain past tense of a witness.
Where people slip
This is testimony, not technique.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it