Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0901 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why Narration Is the First Prose Question
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The idea
Before anything in a prose passage can be judged, you need to know who is telling it and how much that teller can see. A claim about a character and a claim about a narrator look alike on the page and are different answers. Settle the voice first.
In practice
Settle the voice before anything else.
Where people slip
Two different claims look alike here.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
- Nothing. This is a starting point.
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