Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0939 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Whose Opinion Is This Sentence
Captions available
The idea
Ask whether the vocabulary and the judgment could belong to the character. If both could, the sentence is probably free indirect and the opinion is the character's. If the judgment exceeds what the character knows or would say, it is the narrator's.
In practice
Could the character say this.
Where people slip
Vocabulary and judgment, both tested.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Something wrong in this lesson? Flag it