Which sentence about Swift’s "A Modest Proposal" is written subjectively?
Read the statement about Swift’s "A Modest Proposal."In "A Modest Proposal,” Swift also implies that the Irish themselves have not done enough to improve conditions for their poor.
Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."The poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own, which by law may be made liable to a distress, and help to pay their landlord's rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown.
Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" and the summary that follows.A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme. He said, that many gentlemen of this kingdom, having of late destroyed their deer, he conceived that the want of venison might be well supply'd by the bodies of young lads and maidens, not exceeding fourteen years of age, nor under twelve; so great a number of both sexes in every country being now ready to starve for want of work and service.Excerpt summary: Swift writes about a virtuous and patriotic friend who suggests there will be a demand for children aged twelve to fourteen by the wealthy of the kingdom who have "depleted their deer supply."
Which are main ideas of Swift’s "A Modest Proposal"? Select three options.People could solve the problem of poverty in England by breeding, selling, and eating its impoverished children.The practice of eating impoverished children would benefit the poor, the wealthy, and the English economy.Those who constantly breed would have to care for their children for only one year before selling them for a profit.Men would take better care of their pregnant wives because they would not want to do anything to cause a miscarriage.Swift maintains that his solution to end poverty in England is the easiest, cheapest, and most effective proposal thus far made.
What should a complete and effective summary of "A Modest Proposal" include? Select three options.a paraphrase of the main ideas in “A Modest Proposal”details about Swift’s personal life and career as a writeran explanation of the meaning and purpose of the satirethe writer’s opinion about Swift’s essay and political beliefssome quotations that serve as evidence of Swift’s ideas
Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."I desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner I prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather, and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever.
Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme. He said, that many gentlemen of this kingdom, having of late destroyed their deer, he conceived that the want of venison might be well supply'd by the bodies of young lads and maidens.
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