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A Modest Proposal and Other Satires

A Modest Proposal

How is this essay both ironic and sarcastic?

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Answered by jill d #170087 on 5/9/2022 10:08 PM

“A Modest Proposal” mocks anti-Catholic religious prejudice, as the narrator calls the Irish babies “papists" because they are Catholic.

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