In “debtors’ prisons” by Samuel Johnson, people were sent to prison if they couldn’t pay their debts. There are lot of strategies Johnson used to argue his position. Sarcasm, facts, and good diction are some of what he used. The sarcasm facts and diction are all smashed together in the text. He used horrible facts and amazing diction to create sarcasm.
Firstly the text starts slowly, angry. Line sixty-four “who would have belived till now that every English generation a hundred and fifty thousand perish in our gaols!” the exclamation point, and wording show shock yet also a bit of sarcasm.
Facts, facts, facts, this text is full of them. The entirety of paragraph six is factorial. Stating how much money is lost over a period of time because
