Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 10 AIL 0946 short lesson, about 20 seconds
When No Pronoun Appears
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The idea
A passage may open on pure description with no teller visible, as Conrad's does for two sentences. Read on: the pronoun arrives, and the description was the objective narrator's precise but detached setting-up that the glossary describes.
In practice
Read on; the pronoun arrives.
Where people slip
Description first is a known opening.
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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