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Supposing that one thousand families in this city, would be constant customers for infants' flesh, besides others who might have it at merry meetings, particularly weddings and christenings..." Method(s) of Satire Used: Explanation: - Juxtaposition--eating baby at joyful religious events Hyperbole-- Wouldn't constantly eat baby Situational Irony--when you are at a christening you are celebrating a baby, and when at a wedding the couple, more than not, is planning on having children, yet you are eating baby. Reversal-- people don't eat infants!! parody - imitates the style of something to make fun--Swift PARODIES the pamphlets of the time that attempted to shape the political, religious, and economic views of the public reversal - opposite of the working of natural world--eating infants is acceptable The title of Jonathan Swift's essay "A Modest Proposal" Method(s) of Satire Used: Explain: - Understatement Proposal not modest "I shall now therefore humbly propose my own thoughts, which I hope will not be liable to the least objection". Method(s) of Satire Used: Explain: - Understatement - everyone would disagree Situational Irony- opposite from natural reaction "After all, I am not so violently bent upon my own opinion as to reject any other proposed by wise men, which shall be found equally innocent, cheap, easy, and effectual"