Persuasive Essay - Montaigne

Question 1

Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)

Answer 1

• Renaissance thinker, humanist
• well-educated; Latin was first language
• “father of familiar essay;” revived, renamed, made it popular
• essays covered wide range of topics
• focus was on “natural judgment” instead of book learning
• examine before accepting ‘truth”

Question 2

vocabulary

Answer 2

• pretense-n.-claim, allegation
• accrue-v.- build up, increase
• vices-n.- sins, evils, immoralities
• polity-n.-state, tendency
• dissolution-n.-ending, cessation