Samuel Johnson uses many rhetorical strategies and stylistic devices in his essay “Rambler”. Rhetorical strategies and stylistic devices can be used in many different ways to argue a point, persuade, and make something memorable. The devices and strategies that Johnson uses include appeal to logos, and high diction. The first rhetorical strategy that Johnson uses is an appeal to logos. An appeal to logos is when an author appeals to the reader’s sense of logic to make the reader see their point and agree with them. Johnson uses this strategy almost the entire essay. At one point he says “Yet I am inclined to believe, that the great law of mutual benevolence is oftener violated by envy than by interest, and that most of the misery which the
