Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 20 AIL 1946 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: Reading Testimony as Literary Effect
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The idea
Equiano's restraint and Prince's plainness are rhetorical decisions and they are also accounts of what happened. An option treating the suffering as a device has mistaken the subject for the technique, which obligation O-8 exists to prevent.
In practice
The subject is not the technique.
Where people slip
Obligation O-8 prevents this.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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