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Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 1   AIL 0005 short lesson, about 20 seconds

The Four Period Bands

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The idea

Classical and pre-Renaissance writing carries three to seven percent. The Renaissance and seventeenth century carry twenty to thirty. The eighteenth and nineteenth carry thirty to forty, and the twentieth and twenty-first the same. The weight sits in the last four centuries.

In practice

Weight sits after fifteen hundred.

Where people slip

The oldest band is the smallest band.

Your place on the trail

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

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