Context: Hogan also explains that the temporal and emotional amount which a person devotes to understanding a character’s situation in literature allows literature to be considered “ecological[ly] valid in the study of emotion”. This can be understood in the sense that literature unites a large community by provoking universal emotions. It also allows readers to access cultural aspects that they are not exposed to thus provoking new emotional experiences. Authors choose literary device according to what psychological emotion he or she is attempting to describe, thus certain literary devices are more emotionally effective than others.

Question: How does literature unite members of a society?
Answer: by provoking universal emotions

Question: How does literature expand the horizons of its readers?
Answer: allows readers to access cultural aspects that they are not exposed to

Question: What determines what literary structure a literary author uses for expression of ideas?
Answer: what psychological emotion he or she is attempting to describe

Question: What are the levers an author uses in literature to describe a psychological emotion?
Answer: literary devices

Question: Logan says what two things explain what a person devotes to understanding a character's situation?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: How does literature unite small communities?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What do readers access that provokes new physical experiences?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Authors choose literary devices based on what philosophical emotion they are trying to what?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: Who explains that literature is a valid study of emotion because it unites a large community?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: What do characters choose literary device according to?
Answer: Unanswerable

Question: In what way are certain cultural devices more effective than others?
Answer: Unanswerable