Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1135 short lesson, about 20 seconds
What Separates Satire From Testimony
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The idea
Swift's speaker is a persona whose position the author rejects; Equiano's speaker is the author reporting his own life. The difference is not in the sentences but in whether the voice is owned. Unit five's persona test is what settles it, and nothing else will.
In practice
Is the voice owned or adopted.
Where people slip
The sentences will not settle this.
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