Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0934 short lesson, about 20 seconds
"She Was Tired"
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The idea
Three words, reported flatly, with no explanation and no narrator's comment. It is her state given in her own register. A narrator standing further off would have said why she was tired; this one declines to, and the declining is the technique.
In practice
Her state, her register, no comment.
Where people slip
The refusal to explain is deliberate.
Your place on the trail
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