Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 12 AIL 1143 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: Mistaking Vividness for Emotion
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The idea
A passage can describe something terrible in unemotional language, as both worked texts do. An option calling such a passage impassioned is answering from the subject rather than the manner. Unit four's first trap, met again in the band where it is hardest to resist.
In practice
Terrible subject, unemotional manner.
Where people slip
The hardest place to resist this.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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