Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0925 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"Dreadful to Me Was the Coming Home"
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The idea
Brontë inverts the clause, putting the predicate before the subject. Unit two taught that parse: the coming home was dreadful to me. The inversion throws the weight onto dreadful, which is the first word of feeling in the book and is placed for emphasis.
In practice
Inversion places the emphasis.
Where people slip
Unit two's parse is needed here.
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