The narrator uses this "person" as he tells the story.
What is first person?
100
The reason why bodies were buried at least 6 feet under ground.
What is the bodies would not infect others if they were buried that deep?
100
Two ways Defoe shows the desperation of the citizens.
What are people throwing themselves in the pit and the man at the end of the story?
200
Intense pain or anguish.
What is torment?
200
Plausible, believable
What is credible?
200
The author.
Who is Daniel Defoe?
200
The narrator says the pit was expected to last a month, but it lasted 2 weeks. This tells the reader . . .
What is the plague was getting worse than expected?
200
Way that Defoe makes "Journal of the Plague Year" a interesting story, rather than a historical account?
What is adds characters like the Sexton and the man at the end? or What is writes it like a 1st person diary entry?
300
To contaminate.
What is infect?
300
Animal that spread much of the plague.
What are rats?
300
The narrator.
Who is a citizen of London?
300
The reason it was necessary to keep visitors away from the pits.
What is to avoid further infection and prevent people from jumping in?
300
Ways Defoe shows how much the plague devastated people.
What are number of bodies , people throwing themselves in pits, number of graves, size of pit, man at the end of the story?
400
Share, relative magnitude.
What is proportion?
400
The mood of one's writing.
What is tone?
400
What some sick people in town do to escape the plague.
What is throw themselves in the pits?
400
Defoe uses these to make the diary entry seem realistic.
What are statistics and measurements?
400
The main idea of the story shows the plague has made life's routine and rituals meaningless because of all the destruction. This is called the _________ of a story.
What is the central theme?
500
Word meaning infectious diseas, such as the plague.
What is distemper?
500
Eventually this reached up to 6,000 a week.
What is the number of deaths from the plague in England.
500
The character whose language or dialect is "mimicked" by the narrator.
Who is the Sexton?
500
The advice the Sexton gives to the narrator.
What is take the plague as a lesson to live your life well and to the fullest?
500
Defoe lived through the plague, so that is why his story is so detailed. True or False?