Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 5 AIL 0437 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: The Author's Known Views
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The idea
A distractor may offer an attitude the author is known to have held. It is attractive because it feels informed. The question asks about this speaker in this passage, and outside knowledge is the wrong instrument even when the knowledge is correct.
In practice
The author's views are not evidence.
Where people slip
Being informed can mislead here.
Your place on the trail
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