Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 1 AIL 0018 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Question Type Seven: The Speaker's State
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The idea
The exam asks what the speaker is, across the whole passage rather than in one line. Sample question ten asks what the speaker of Sonnet forty-four is throughout, and the published answer is frustrated and yearning. The word throughout is doing work.
In practice
Throughout means across the whole.
Where people slip
One line cannot settle it.
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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