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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5   AIL 0422 short lesson, about 20 seconds

The Option That Would Fail

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The idea

Remorseful would fail. So would grief-stricken. Nothing in the monologue mourns, and the speed of his return to business rules both out. Candidates select them because a widower discussing a dead wife suggests grief, which is the trap of answering from the subject.

In practice

Nothing here is mourning.

Where people slip

The subject suggests grief; the manner denies it.

Your place on the trail

Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.

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