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Dr. Samuel Johnson’s The Vanity of Human Wishes is written in:

ABlank verse

BHeroic couplets with rhetorical formality

CSpenserian stanzas

DOttava rima

Answer:

B. Heroic couplets with rhetorical formality

Read Explanation:

  • Johnson followed Pope’s model of heroic couplets.

  • Used personification and formal rhetoric typical of neo-classicism.

  • The poem meditates on ambition, human limits, and fate.


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