Samuel Johnson: Reading and Discussion Questions

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• Persuading Words in Rambler No. 182
• Samuel Johnson's Pants on Fire (Adventurer 84)
• Severity and Authority in Johnson's Adventurer No. 50
• The Ambiguity of Pronouns in Samuel Johnson's Rambler No. 172
• Anecdotal and deceptive layers in Johnson's Adventurer No. 84
• Montaigne and Johnson's Accused
• Ignorant Youth in Johnson and Wolfe
• Testing Johnson's Contemporary Relevance (“On Liars”)
• Using an old friend for the sake of a moral lesson
• The So-Called Wisdom Speaker in Johnson's Rambler No. 180
• Johnson as Wisdom Speaker in The Adventurer, No. 108
• “On Liars”
• Johson's tempering of argument — an effective rhetorical strategy?
• Ways of Reading Wisdom
• Petty Human Nature and Adventurer No. 84
• Sarcasm in Johnson's Parable of the Stagecoach
• Irony and Fictional Characters

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