Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0436 short lesson, about 20 seconds
A Procedure for Speaker Attitude
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The idea
Identify the speaker, identify who is addressed, find the two or three most loaded words, then test the paired options half by half. Four steps, and the first two are the ones candidates skip. Skipping them is what produces an answer about the author instead.
In practice
Speaker, listener, diction, options.
Where people slip
The first two steps are the skipped ones.
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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