Practice identifying the tools of the satirist with examples from Swift's "A Modest Proposal. " For each question select the most appropriate tool for the quote given.
Questions and Answers
1.
The title of the essay: "A Modest Proposal"
A. 
Exaggeration
B. 
Understatement
C. 
Verbal irony
D. 
Parody
2.
"...who [the helpless infants] as they grow up either turn thieves for want of work, or leave their dear country to fight for the Pretender in Spain, or sell themselves to the Barbadoes."
A. 
Exaggeration
B. 
Understatement
C. 
Verbal irony
D. 
Parody
3.
"...as a little bordering upon cruelty, which, I confess, hath always been with me the
strongest objection against any project, however so well intended."
A. 
Exaggeration
B. 
Understatement
C. 
Verbal irony
D. 
Parody
4.
"...thus the country and themselves are happily delivered from the evils to come."
A. 
Exaggeration
B. 
Understatement
C. 
Verbal irony
D. 
Parody
5.
"I
have always found them grossly mistaken in this computation."
Assessment Description:-Assess basic industrial skills. Like industrial math, workplace problem solving, workplace measurement skills, weights and measurements, industrial safety, etc.
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