Elements of Satire
Gross exaggeration is also known as ----
Hyperbole
Big and Little Endians fight over this basic idea
Where to crack their eggs
What do the Hou. discuss at their council meeting?
Ridding the world of the Yahoos
Why does Gulliver have to be chained in the captain's cabin on the voyage home?
He would have jumped overboard
Double meaning, with one being less "polite," is called ----
Double Entendre
The ropes game symbolized this
Political favors and ridiculous polices in English government
What do they decide must become of Gulliver?
He must go.
Sails, clothing, cover his canoe
Satirists attempt humans to turn a critical eye toward, ultimately, what?
Ourselves
The meaning behind the egg-cracking problems satirizes this larger, real issue
Protestants versus Catholics
What causes them to consider castrating Yahoos?
Gulliver had explained how and why humans castrate horses
Two stone-horses
This form of satire is known to be bitter, dark.
Juvenalian
High and Low heels satirize what?
Political Parties in England
What was the title of the Juvenalian Satire Swift wrote on the cure for poverty and hunger in Ireland?
"A Modest Proposal"
They were lifelong loves, never married officially
This feeling, intensely felt by Swift and encouraged in all his fans, is written on his epitaph
Savage Indignation
When Gulliver fled to Blefuscu, why was the emperor of Lilliput so angry?
It was as if he had sided with France (answers vary)
Swift's birth and death years, within a decade
1667-1745