Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 1 AIL 0032 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Procedure for Prose
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The idea
Identify who is speaking and whether they are inside the story or outside it. Mark where the passage changes footing, from narration to speech or from general to particular. Ask what the narrator seems to think of the people described.
In practice
Who speaks, and from where.
Where people slip
Narrator and author are different.
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