ROBINSON CRUSOE Flashcards
In Robin Crusoe the victim (Friday) shows his gratitude for saving his life by ….
kneeling down every ten or twelve steps in token of acknowledgement
One of the writers of Enlightenment you have learnt is…
Daniel Defoe
Daniel Defoe is considered as one of …
The founders of English novel/ the earliest practitioners of the novel helping popularize the genre in Britain and even one of the founders of English novel
The novel Robinson Crusoe is regarded as…
One of the first novels in English
*Robinson Crusoe is a novel of isolation because…
it is about a sea-man who get stranded (mắc kẹt) on a deserted island for 28 years
Robinson Crusoe was written by…in…during the cultural movement of…
Daniel Defoe - 1719 - Enlightenment
Robinson Crusoe embodies the spirit of the age of enlightenment through…
The character of Robinson Crusoe who is adventurous, enterprising and reason-controlled
One of the symbols of Robinson Crusoe is Crusoe’s Bower, which symbolizes…
The changes in Robinson’s attitude towards his life on the desert island
Robinson Crusoe stayed on the deserted island for…
28 years, 2 months and 17 days
*Self-awareness in Robinson Crusoe refers to the fact that…
Robinson is always conscious of himself and his situation. For example, he keeps a journal of his daily activities, he grows rice, corn…
Crusoe suffers a storm at sea near Yarmouth, foreshadowing…
His shipwreck years later
Robinson’s first… trip is financially successful, so he plans another, leaving his early profits in the care of a friendly…
Trading- widow
In Robinson Crusoe, Crusoe gets married after he…and before he…
Donates a portion to the widow and his sister
- revisits his island and Brazil
“I set my gun at the foot of my ladder”. The literary technique of the underlined is… because…
Metaphor- the writer compares the function of the foot of a human with the function of the bottom part of the ladder without using “like” or ”as”
The literary technique used in “ he stood trembling, as if he had been taken prisoner” is … because…
Simile- the writer compares the victim “ stood trembling” with the fact that he had been taken prisoner using “ as if ”
