Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 9 AIL 0840 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Trap: The Paraphrase That Adds
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The idea
A restatement option may be accurate and add a claim the line does not make, usually an explanation of motive. Compare the option to the line word by word and reject any addition, however reasonable. Reasonableness is not the standard; correspondence is.
In practice
Reject additions, however reasonable.
Where people slip
Correspondence, not plausibility.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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