What comparison best describes Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Samuel Pepys' diary?

A. Both describe events of the London plague, and both are unsubstantiated imaginative fiction.

B. Both describe the events of the plague, and both are considered primary source documents.

C. Both are first-person accounts of the plague, but Defoe's is historical fiction while Pepys' diary is a nonfiction, primary source document.

D. Both are accounts of the plague, but Defoe's features an omniscient, third-person narrator while Pepys' journal is a subjective, first-person account.

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Blake Moody

10 September, 19:55

What comparison best describes Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Samuel Pepys' diary?

A. Both describe events of the London plague, and both are unsubstantiated imaginative fiction.

B. Both describe the events of the plague, and both are considered primary source documents.

C. Both are first-person accounts of the plague, but Defoe's is historical fiction while Pepys' diary is a nonfiction, primary source document.

D. Both are accounts of the plague, but Defoe's features an omniscient, third-person narrator while Pepys' journal is a subjective, first-person account.

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Harper Leblanc · Answer 1

The correct answer is C. Both are first-person accounts of the plague, but Defoe's is historical fiction while Pepys' diary is a nonfiction, primary source document.

Explanation:

Maybe the reason why Defoe's account of the events were so fictitious were because the time it occurred, he was just about 5 years old, hence he might not have been able to remember everything. Probably most of his information he took from books, newspapers and sermons about the plague. However Pepy used the primary source because he was older and was at the very heart of it when it happend. He even some times used personal pronouns to refer to himself in the document.