Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 2 AIL 0140 short lesson, about 20 seconds
When Difficulty Is the Point
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The idea
A writer may twist a sentence to make a reader work, so that the effort of understanding becomes part of the meaning. Noticing that a construction is strained, and asking what the strain enacts, turns a grammatical observation into a reading.
In practice
Ask what the strain enacts.
Where people slip
Difficulty can be the argument.
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