https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18 Find an example of each satirical device listed below from "A Modest Proposal". Explain how the example is an effective satirical device and how it aids Swift in proving his point. en-us 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC 2019-01-17 19:58:57 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Babyhead.png arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876704 "Supposing that one thousand families in this city, would be constant customers for infants flesh, besides others who might have it at merry meetings, particularly at weddings and christenings, I compute that Dublin would take off annually about twenty thousand carcasses; and the rest of the kingdom (where probably they will be sold somewhat cheaper)."]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876704 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876706 This quote is making a generalization about the sale of babies as food, thus, it is an understatement.]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876706 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876707 These mothers instead of being able to work for their honest livelihood, are forced to employ all their time in stroling to beg sustenance for their helpless infants who, as they grow up, either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear native country, to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes.]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876707 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876708 The beginning of the article presents a sorrowful tone in which the readers are eager to know the solution to the problem. In contrast to the belief, the tone become a satirical spin on the problems Ireland is faced with.

]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876708 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876709 I grant this food will be somewhat dear, and therefore very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children.]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876709 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876710 A pun of being eaten alive rather not something alive but in a metaphorical sense of the landlords eating their funds to live.

]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876710 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876711 "I can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will be thereby much lessened in the kingdom."]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876711 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876712 The sarcastic tone of this quote demonstrates verbal irony; the author is knowingly understating the objections his proposal would receive.]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876712 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876714 "As to our City of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose, in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs."]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876714 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876716 The irony is that even though he is planning out a well thought out system, the subject matter is still ludicrous.

]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876716 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876717 "I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and I make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust."]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876717 arich3561 https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876718 This is a hyperbole because the idea presented was very radical and ludicrous. ]]> 2019-01-17 19:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/arich3561/owugkbjg3v18/wish/321876718