Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0424 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Whether a Speaker Can Be Trusted
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The idea
Some speakers report accurately and some do not, and the poem gives the means to tell. Look for claims the speaker cannot know, judgments that outrun the facts offered, and detail that undercuts the claim it was meant to support. The Duke does all three.
In practice
Three tests for a speaker's account.
Where people slip
The evidence of unreliability is internal.
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