Robinson Crusoe
How does Robinson Crusoe credit his deliverance from his difficult time in the boat away from the island?
He credits God.
Like Defoe's Review, the Tatler became a...
What fundamental question does An Essay on Man seek to answer?
Why does evil exist?
Whom did the Lilliputians represent?
England
An extended work of fictional prose
novel
True or false: Robinson Crusoe repeatedly compares the island to a kingdom and himself to a ruler.
True
What is the topic that Steele satirizes in the Tatler excerpt in the text?
According to Pope in An Essay on Man, what is "the proper study of mankind"?
man
Whom did the Tramecksans represent?
The Tory party
In literature, the concept of minute, even superfluous details creating an illusion of reality
verisimilitude
How does Crusoe use his resources on the island?
He is thrifty and frugal.
The letter at the end of Steele's "On Dueling" is an example of what literary technique?
verbal irony
True or false: Alexander Pope wanted to "justify the ways of God to man"
True
What historical division does the egg controversy refer to in Gulliver's Travels?
the division between Catholics and Protestants
A minor neoclassical poetic genre in which a poem, usually of high moral seriousness, takes the form of an address to a friend
verse epistle
What does Crusoe value in his home?
Orderliness
What was the point of the woman's plucking her husband's hair out in the excerpt from the Spectator?
It illustrated the many issues and groups that people did not want Addison to satirize.
According to Pope in An Essay on Criticism, it is safe to attempt "a little learning."
False
How does Swift want his readers to feel about the opposing parties in the text?
He wants us to see the groups as petty
A type of biting, savage, and serious corrective ridicule
Juvenalian satire
What is Crusoe's exception to his happiness on the island?
His lack of social interaction
True or false: Both Addison and Steele's excerpts in this unit illustrate Juvenalian satire.
false
What is man's means for understanding himself and God?
Natural observation
How does the reader know he can trust Gulliver's narration?
Gulliver is analytical, detailed, serious, and matter-of-fact.
Gentle mockery, often in the form of verbal irony, usually aimed at people needing correction on a specific issue or idea
Horatian satire