Key question
What changes if this passage is told or arranged differently?
Check your understanding
Find an example, an application and a limit. Explain the concept without using its name, then compare your explanation with a primary source.
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Claims to examine
An interpretation becomes more defensible when it explains specific features of a text and addresses details that resist it.
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How do you build an interpretation from the words on the page?
Study stories and poems, compare readings and write an argument grounded in the text.