Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 6 AIL 0551 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: The Neighbouring Device
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The idea
Sample question one offers four other genuine devices. The distractor is always a device that is nearly right: assonance for alliteration, consonance for either, internal rhyme for assonance. Definitions must be sharp enough to exclude, which is why every entry above states what its term rules out.
In practice
The wrong option is nearly right.
Where people slip
Sharp definitions are the only defence.
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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