Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 3 AIL 0236 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap Four: The Option That Improves the Line
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The idea
An option can make the sentence more striking than the writer made it. That is a warning rather than a recommendation. Your task is the sense the passage carries, not the best sense available, and an option that improves on the poet is usually reading something in.
In practice
Better is not the same as right.
Where people slip
Improvement is a symptom of invention.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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