Question:
While performing his work as a priest in rural Ireland he noticed the many poverty- stricken Catholic Irish citizens whom does this describe
A) Pope
B) Gulliver
C) Swift
D) Horace
Answer:
The correct answer is C) Swift
Explanation:
Jonathan Swift in his book
<em>"A Modest Proposal For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the publick."</em>
Recorded the level of penury among the Irish Citizens especialy catholics and made a proposal on how they may be helped.
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Answer: Metaphor
Explanation:
A Metaphor helps describe a character or variable by relating it to another character or Variable that is seemly unrelated to it but bears certain characteristics to it for comparison sake.
It essentially says one thing is another so that the original thing can be understood better.
For example, "every family has a black sheep". It is not saying that every family will have a sheep which is black but rather saying that at least one member of each family behaves differently from the rest.
In the above extract from Toni Cade Bambara's short story "Raymond's Run", Squeaky who is Raymond's sister is using a metaphor to describe her brother's penchant for using the curb as a Circus clown uses a rope high in the air.
Answer:
While driving to the airport, in an effort to distract herself from the thoughts of her ageing mother, the poet looks at the young trees 'sprinting'. The trees seem to be running past the moving car. The sprinting of the trees symbolises the rapidly passing years of human's life from childhood to old age
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