Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 21 AIL 2005 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Question One: Device Identification
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The idea
The board quotes the happiest of men and the most miserable dog, and asks what those two phrases are best described as. It offers five options: clichés, metaphors, allusions, stock attitudes and euphemisms. The published answer is clichés.
In practice
Five options, one answer: clichés.
Where people slip
The board's answer, reported as such.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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