Q. What effect does hyperbole have on the reader?
Hyperbole is effective when the audience understands that you are employing hyperbole. When using hyperbole, the intended effect isn’t to deceive the reader, it’s to emphasize the magnitude of something through exaggerated comparison.
Q. What is an example of hyperbole in literature?
A great example of hyperbole in literature comes from Paul Bunyan’s opening remarks in the American folktale of Bunyan and Babe the Blue Ox. It comically gets across just how cold it was: “Well now, one winter it was so cold that all the geese flew backward and all the fish moved south and even the snow turned blue.
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- Q. What effect does hyperbole have on the reader?
- Q. What is an example of hyperbole in literature?
- Q. Why would an author use hyperbole?
- Q. What is the effect of the description at the beginning of a modest proposal?
- Q. What is the moral purpose of a modest proposal?
- Q. Which sentence best describes the narrator’s purpose in writing his proposal?
- Q. What group is targeted negatively but indirectly?
- Q. How does a modest proposal fit the definition of satire?
- Q. What is Swift’s argument in a modest proposal?
- Q. What problem does the narrator call attention to in the first paragraph of a modest proposal?
Q. Why would an author use hyperbole?
What is a Hyperbole Used For In Writing? This is a rhetorical device in speech (whether written or spoken) that can help to evoke feeling, emotion or strong impressions. A hyperbole is used to over-exaggerate, add emphasis, or to be humorous.
Q. What is the effect of the description at the beginning of a modest proposal?
What is the effect of presenting this description of the problem at the beginning of the essay? The mothers are unable to work, and have been “forced” into their current poverty and disgrace. Swift’s language here reverses the prevailing sentiment of his day, which held that if beggars were poor, itwas their own fault.
Q. What is the moral purpose of a modest proposal?
The full title of Swift’s pamphlet is “A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People from Being a Burthen to their Parents, or the Country, and for Making them Beneficial to the Publick.” The tract is an ironically conceived attempt to “find out a fair, cheap, and easy Method” for converting the starving …
Q. Which sentence best describes the narrator’s purpose in writing his proposal?
Answer: the correct answer is B. He is proposing a solution to the problem of Irish parents who cannot financially support their children. Explanation: “A Modest Proposal” (1729) An essay by Jonathan Swift, considered a masterpiece of irony.
Q. What group is targeted negatively but indirectly?
English Lords as well as known as Wealthy English Protestants are being targeted negatively by Swift. Explanation: “A modest proposal” is written by Jonathan Swift who was an Anglo Irish essayist and a poet. It is a satirical pamphlet.
Q. How does a modest proposal fit the definition of satire?
“A Modest Proposal” fits the definition of satire as it presents an argument for treating children like livestock, which the reader isn’t meant to take seriously.
Q. What is Swift’s argument in a modest proposal?
In his essay, Swift argues that children could be sold into a meat market as early as the age of one, giving poor families some much needed income, while sparing them the expenses of raising so many children.
Q. What problem does the narrator call attention to in the first paragraph of a modest proposal?
What problem does the narrator call attention to in the first paragraph? The impoverished state of the Irish people. At what age is a child best suited to serve as the solution to the problem he identifies? You just studied 8 terms!
