Vocab
What is something pledged as security for payments of a loan?
Collateral
Enlightenment began in this city
Paris
What does irony do?
Emphasizing irony and exaggerating situations
what will children do as adults to support themselves?
Steal
The group that invaded Ireland was?
The Vikings
What is another word for something that is impressively great in size?
Prodigious
Enlightenment thinkers were called this
Philosophers
What are the 3 types of satire?
Horation, juvenalian, menippean
What would commonwealth people do to reward anyone?
Make a statue to honor them
True of False: British and Irish protestants owned 90% of the land in Ireland
True
What is to make an effort to match or surpass a person's achievement?
Emulation
Enlightenment thinkers used this type of sense
What is a Modest Proposal?
This proposal uses a great deal of satire
Paragraph 5, another great advantage to his scheme was what advantage?
Prevent abortions
Jonathan Swift lived from 1667 to?
1745
What is the definition of Propagation?
The breeding of specimens of a plant or animal.
Philosophers focused on educating this economical class
Upper
The original founders of satire
Who are the Greeks?
How many children are born to poor irish parents each year?
120,000
Considered to this day the great pose ______ of the English language
Satirist
Nourishment, food, fare, diet are synonyms of what word?
The idea that there is no universal truth is called
cultural relativism
Writing that ridicules or makes fun of a person or institution with the intent of bring about change
What is Satire?
How old before children pick up thievery?
6
One famous work Swift wrote is?
Arthur of Gulliver