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Satire in Swift's "A Modest Proposal" Answers

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What false premise does Swift rely on to build his argument in this passage?

Children will be too expensive for most buyers.

Women can be competitive.

Mothers will be willing to sell their children.

Which statement best explains Swift’s use of rhetorical devices in this passage?

Swift uses verbal irony when he mentions objections to his plan in order to prove that no one could possibly object to the proposal.

Swift uses verbal irony when he says his plan is “a little bordering upon cruelty” because his plan is not at all cruel.

Swift uses understatement and irony when he says his plan is “a little bordering on cruelty” to highlight how cruel the plan really is.

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