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The being Swift says can be sold as food.
Who are Irish children?
What is a technique employed by writers to expose and criticize foolishness and corruption of an individual or a society, by using humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule?
Satire
What is Swift's Tone
A. Reasoned and confident
B. Informal and illogical
C. Sad and nonchalant
D. Discontent and Assuring
Reasoned and Confident
Real solution regarding purchasing goods/materials
Buy Ireland made
The country Swift speaks about
What is Ireland?
What is the primary purpose of Satire?
To criticize
What occupation does Swift say would be good for the poor women?
They could be breeders
How would the proposal affect how mothers see their babies?
They would view their babies as profit and take better care of them
Be kind
At what age does Swift say a baby is "most delicious, nourishing, and wholesome food"?
1
What kind of argument is Swift's proposal? (Religious, economic, political, crazy)
Economic
What does Swift say is in season all year, but more plentiful in the spring....Infants' _______?
How would the proposal affect the way husbands treat their wives?
They won't beat them as often because the wives are breeders and produce a profit
Swift's emotional support for his argument
What is Swift being tired after looking for a solution for years?
The one way Swift says Ireland can contribute meaningfully.
What is fattening up your children and selling them to be eaten by the rich?
What is Swift's actual argument?
There are real and practicable solutions to the Irish economy that greed and self-indulgence has produced.
How would Swift's proposal affect the religious community? (this is still part of his satire)
It would reduce the number of papists (Catholics)
T or F: Swift states that he wants Ireland to succeed but he does not want to have children sold as food.
What is False?
Real Solution: Taxes (Raise or Lower)?
Raise
The one social issue Swift does NOT address (Unemployment, education, poverty, religion, Patriotism)
Education
What is Swift's claim?
The English economic policy toward the Irish is so bad, they are "cannibalizing" the Irish people.
How would his proposal help in regard to housing?
The Irish would have money for rent.
T or F: Swift states that it is the government's responsibility to safeguard the peace and tranquility and necessarily the economic and social stability of Ireland.
What is False?
How does Swift prove he has no personal gain with this proposal?
He says he has no children and his wife is beyond childbearing age