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What are some rhetorical devices used in "The Education of Women" by Daniel Defoe?

In Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, what are the most prominent literary/rhetorical devices?

What does Daniel Defoe mean by this sentence from his essay "The Education of Women"? "A woman of sense and breeding will scorn as much to encroach upon the right of man as a man of sense will scorn to oppress the weakness of the woman."

What is an example of a counterargument Defoe uses in "The Education of Women"?

Which of the following questions is the best for Defoe's "An Academy for Women?" 1) Are males or females ever portrayed as equals in one or more ways? 2)Is the dominance of one gender stated or taken for granted? 3)Are gender roles determined by society or by nature? 4) Are certain gender roles typical of a specific time period or culture?  

Why did Defoe write his essay "On the Education of Women"?

What did Defoe try to demonstrate with The True-Born Englishman? What were the questions raised?

I am currently reading an extract from Daniel Defoe's Roxana, "The Cons of Marriage." Why and how does the style change in the last paragraph of that extract? ("Thus blinded by my own vanity, I threw away the only opportunity I then had to have effectually settled my fortunes ... and how dangerously we act, when we follow the dictates of an ambitious mind.")

Please write a short paragraph describing Daniel Defoe's Robinson's character, including his origins, his reasons for travelling, kind of journey, response to situations and the writer's aim.

How might a modern defender of womens rights respond to Defoe's "An Academy for Women"?

Please give examples of how Daniel Defoe's personal life affected his writings.

In Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year, were the steps that the local governors of London, the mayor and the aldermen, take to control the spread of the contagion successful? 

How did Defoe develop a deep understanding of the outcasts of society?

What differences does Defoe point out in "The Education of Women" between women who are and are not well bred?

Why do you think Crusoe was unhappy when he was a slave?  

Compare Daniel Defoe's ideas on the "laboring poor" and the "bred gentleman."

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