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What is an example of a satirical drama

The play: Oh! What a lovely war by Joan Litttlewood is an example of satirical drama.

Robinson Crusoe male or female

Robinson Crusoe was male.

What is the logic in modest proposal

What is the logic in modest proposal?

What is one of the reasons that Swift gives for his proposal

Children would become valuable property.

Harvesting poor infants will reduce the number of Papists in the country.

Which social problem does swift most strongly address in his proposal

unemployment

Social-class inequality

Why was satire popular among 18th-century English writers

Because writers wanted to expose people's flawed thinking about religious traditions

Which statement best reflects the purpose of satire

It encourages change or reform.

It reveals flaws in a society in an indirect way.

Why did swift publish his ideas in satirical format

he wanted his readers to see their own errors in logic and morality

What group is targeted negatively but indirectly by Swift in A modest Proposal

upper-class families of ireland - apex

Which satirical work from the 18th century criticizes the vanity of the upper classes

Pope's The Rape of the Lock

Which sentence best describes the narrator's purpose in writing this proposal

He is proposing a solution to the problem of Irish parents who cannot financially support their children.

Which event from the story best represents the character-versus-character conflict

Crusoe loses his newly built roof to an earthquake.

How are satire and sarcasm different

Satire is used to persuade an audience, while sarcasm is used to tell a joke

Which of the following words has the most dominant connotation

Premier

For which reason would writers most likely choose to write satire

they want to criticize socially accepted values (Apex)

Based on the events in Robinson Crusoe what statement most likely reflects Defoe's beliefs about governors and subjects

the best masters are the ones who act as fathers toward their subjects

What is the best example of a cultural value

Respect animals and pets

How Based on the wording in this excerpt is Crusoe most likely describing The poor man with tears running down his face and trembling looking like one astonished returned

The Spaniard

Which of the following scenarios would most likely be considered situational irony

Renee was elated when they handed her the first-place spelling bee plaque, but she frowned when she discovered they'd misspelled a word on the plaque.

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