Overview A Modest Proposal

communicates contempt for the subject at hand.

• sarcasm

• hyperbole

• humor

• paradox

Radically exaggerates existing situations to show innate stupidity or weakness.

• contradiction

• sarcasm

• hyperbole

• understatement

Indirectly draw attention to flawed situations.

• understatement

• extended analogy

• The Pamphlet

• symbolism

...also indirectly represents current social issues. T

• symbolism

• humor

• irony

• paradox

...criticizes society to stimulate thought and action

• contradiction

• sarcasm

• verbal irony

• humor

"A Modest Proposal" was published as a _______, a work that's just a few pages long. Rather than being bound with a hardcover like a book, a _____ is unbound or loosely bound. This form of publishing was very popular in the 16th and 17th centuries. People used them as part of religious and political debates. They were an inexpensive way to get a single piece of writing into circulation, and many writers wrote back and forth in a kind of war of ideas.

• paradox

• understatement

• pamphlet

• extended analogy

Many ____ farmers who had owned their own lands now had to work as tenants on farms owned by ____ landlords.

• English- Irish

• Irish - English

• Scottish- Irish

• English - Scotish

During this period many new restrictions were placed on ____ governing property ownership and limiting what they could do. These "Penal Laws" denied Irish _____ the right to vote, practice their religion, or buy land.

• Protestants

• Anglicans

• Catholics

• Landlords

Swift, therefore, opposed ______ on both religious and political grounds. As the reasoning in "A Modest Proposal" demonstrates, Swift was also a rationalist, and so opposed any sort of religious fanaticism

• Protestantism

• Catholicism

• Anglicanism

• Symbolism

So, while Swift never fully embraced some of the anti-Catholic sentiments of his age, he found Catholicism politically and religiously ______.

• accurate

• dangerous

• impossible

• incompatible