Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0344 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap Two: The Overstated Option
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The idea
Options carrying extremity, contemptuous, savage, ecstatic, are usually too strong for a measured passage. The board includes one because strong words feel like decisive reading. Prefer the option the evidence supports over the option that sounds most perceptive.
In practice
Strength is not accuracy.
Where people slip
One option is deliberately too loud.
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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