1. Analyze Pope's rhetorical maneuvers for dealing with the Problem of Evil in at least two passages of his Essay on Man.
2. Analyze specific rhetorical strategies that Swift uses in Gulliver's Travels, Part 4, to "defamiliarize" values, ideas, institutions, and practices commonly accepted in his culture. Be sure to make specific references to the text.
3. Explain some specific rhetorical functions of the authorial persona in "A Modest Proposal."
4. Explain some specific ways that Gray and Goldsmith were creating new openings for English poetry in the latter part of the 18th century.