Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 21 AIL 2026 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Question Seven: Inference
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The idea
The board asks why the speaker complains of injurious distance. The published answer is that it frustrates his desire to be with his beloved. The word injurious does the work: distance is described as doing him harm.
In practice
Injurious means it harms him.
Where people slip
The board's answer, reported.
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