Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0936 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Dusty Cretonne
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The idea
Cretonne is a cheap furnishing fabric, and the odour of it dusty is a detail only someone in that room and used to it would register. Free indirect discourse works by selecting what the character would notice, so the choice of detail is the characterisation.
In practice
What she would notice, selected.
Where people slip
Detail selection is characterisation.
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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