Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0321 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Lexicon: Somber
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The idea
Somber means grave, darkened, without lightness. In the board's pairing ironic but somber it does real work: it denies that the irony is playful. An ironic passage that amuses rather than darkens fails the second half of that option and the option falls.
In practice
Grave, and not at all playful.
Where people slip
It denies playfulness explicitly.
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