Which of the following are examples of irony from "A Modest Proposal"? Choose all that apply.
E. That Swift addresses his pamphlet to the Irish poor when they can't read.
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C. The fact that Jonathan Swift is from Ireland himself.
B. The idea that the proposal would prevent "that horrid practice of women murdering their children..." when what he is proposing will result in the slaughter of the same
children to a perhaps more horrifying fate.
A The title, "A Modest Proposal" is verbal irony because what the pamphlet proposes is not a modest solution at all.
D. The narrator "" can think of no one objection, that will possibly be raised against this proposal, unless it should be urged, that the number of people will be thereby much
lessened in the kingdom."
