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NZentilin - Exercises About Tristram's Life And Opinions.
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2) I think that Sterne was aware of the difference between the novels because in the extract he says that he always consults every novel a little. This is a quotation from the extract.
3) Tristram says that he was born on the first sunday night of March in 1718 (the night between Sunday and Monday). He says also that his father wounds the clock on the first Sunday night of every month. His father associates the "family concernments" with the wound of the clock.
4) His father associates the wound of the clock with the "family concernments".
5) Tristram was born at the beginning of November: it means that his conception was in March.
6) Methodical and systematic: I think that "methodical" best sums up all the others.
7) I think that Tristram's family belonged to the middle class because his father was a merchant.
8) I suppose he was satisfied with his life bacause he said that his life and opinions would take in all ranks: it means that he liked his life.
9) In the 4th and 5th lines there is an ironic comment about his appear in the extract.
10) Their "life and opinions" are worth concideration: you can understand it from the 6th line. In this life he said that his opinions would take in all ranks. He says that his father was one of the best people he has ever met.
11) Tristram Shandy says that the sagacious philosopher Locke is able to understand something important from the strange combination of ideas: he can understand it better that other men.
12) Tristram's father sometimes appears to be a caricature and sometimes a real, flesh-and-blood character. Tristram is carefree. I think that Tristram's father was the real protagonist of the novel.
13) The narration is a first-person intrusive narrator: he comments everything and addresses the reader. It means that he is omniscent and filters everything: as a consequence the reader's point of view depends on the narrator's one. In the last two lines of the extract there is something strange: the narrator wants to speak with the reader. It follows that the two speakers are the narrator and the reader.
3) Tristram says that he was born on the first sunday night of March in 1718 (the night between Sunday and Monday). He says also that his father wounds the clock on the first Sunday night of every month. His father associates the "family concernments" with the wound of the clock.
4) His father associates the wound of the clock with the "family concernments".
5) Tristram was born at the beginning of November: it means that his conception was in March.
6) Methodical and systematic: I think that "methodical" best sums up all the others.
7) I think that Tristram's family belonged to the middle class because his father was a merchant.
8) I suppose he was satisfied with his life bacause he said that his life and opinions would take in all ranks: it means that he liked his life.
9) In the 4th and 5th lines there is an ironic comment about his appear in the extract.
10) Their "life and opinions" are worth concideration: you can understand it from the 6th line. In this life he said that his opinions would take in all ranks. He says that his father was one of the best people he has ever met.
11) Tristram Shandy says that the sagacious philosopher Locke is able to understand something important from the strange combination of ideas: he can understand it better that other men.
12) Tristram's father sometimes appears to be a caricature and sometimes a real, flesh-and-blood character. Tristram is carefree. I think that Tristram's father was the real protagonist of the novel.
13) The narration is a first-person intrusive narrator: he comments everything and addresses the reader. It means that he is omniscent and filters everything: as a consequence the reader's point of view depends on the narrator's one. In the last two lines of the extract there is something strange: the narrator wants to speak with the reader. It follows that the two speakers are the narrator and the reader.