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Satire is any piece of writing designed to make it’s readers feel critical of
themselves and their fellow human beings.
2. They use both exaggeration and hyperbole.
3. For the Irish to sell their children born into poverty to the rich as food.
4. Ireland’s horrible economic state, the nation’s loyalty, unemployment, the issues
with overpopulation, to remove the burden of useless breeders/beggars and to
enrich the culinary experience of the wealthy.
5. Modest- Free from showiness or ostentation; unpretentious; not extreme, shy.
Because he references such an extreme method and does it so bluntly that it
cannot be seen as truly modest.
6. One is families in poverty forced to beg on the streets or unable to pay overpriced
bills. Another is the talk of the Irish going off to war in a country that has nothing
to do with them just like the current war in Iraq that people in America have to
deal with. Also the prejudice relationship between other forms of religions in the
country is another similarity to our modern world.
7. Because he wants to show that the women are no longer human beings but lesser
than that or just animals and uses it as a way to belittle them.
8. An ethical and emotional appeal. Because he talks about the practice of voluntary
abortion and says that the women are only doing it because they can’t afford the
child and do not care for it anyways. This passage shows a lot of irony because
even though he says that the women don’t care about doing such as thing when he
knows they really do.
9. Because he says that a child under six cannot learn the art of stealing well and
later on at the end he says that many children younger than six are good at the art.
10. Exaggeration and irony.
11. Prejudice and hatred.
12. He means dressing them up like roasted pig to be eaten, to show the extreme
exploitation of the children in Ireland.
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14. Logical appeal
15. His prejudice to Ireland itself, its people and government who ignored his
proposals to help Ireland in the past and who refuse to help themselves or stand
up for themselves.
16. Because it wants to emphizse the real troubles that Ireland is going through and to
show