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A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

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A Modest Proposal

Two metaphors in Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" are "devoured" and "title." "Devoured" compares landlords financially destroying tenants to physically eating them, while "title" compares the...

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A Modest Proposal

In "A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift uses a satirical tone to criticize the British exploitation of the Irish. The proposer, characterized as an intellectual and reformer, ironically suggests...

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