Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0307 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Options Come in Pairs
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The idea
The calibration set shows the board's tone options are compound: ironic but somber, reticent but obsequious, admonitory yet loving. Two attitudes are yoked, often by a concessive conjunction. This is the single most useful fact about the question type and it changes how you test an option.
In practice
Two attitudes, yoked together.
Where people slip
The compound form is deliberate.
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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