A Modest Proposal & Other Stories (Konemann Classics)

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By Anonymous - February 06, 2003

In his essay, A Modest Proposal, Jonathan Swift uses the literary devices of organization, point of view, diction and imagery to maneuver the reader into identifying the need for humans to let both logic and emotion govern decisions.

Jonathan Swift, in order to prepare his audience for his radical proposal to provide for the large starving Irish…

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