It is a sonnet, 14 lines written in iambic pentamter
Answer: possibility of loss or injury : peril. 2 : someone or something that creates or suggests a hazard. 3a : the chance of loss or the perils to the subject matter of an insurance contract also : the degree of probability of such loss.
Explanation:
Answer:
C. It pokes fun at the professed selflessness of people who propose
solutions to society's problems.
Explanation:
One of the proposal described just before this concluding excerpt is selling the poor Irish one year old children to abroad as a source of food. According to the proposer (a narrator and not Jonathan Swift himself), this selling will make Irish people rich. After this proposal the narrator wants to convince readers of his selflessness. This is very satiric and satirizes the professed selflessness of such proposers. The proposer is wanting himself to be believed very sincere after saying that he can not sell his own children, because they are old.
Option A, B and D are not correct. Firstly because the proposal is a satire and the proposer is not Jonathan Swift himself, but just a narrator - a satirized self professed selfless proposer. Secondly as this proposal is a satire, there is no mention of satirizing or poking fun in any of these options.
Answer:
Context
Explanation:
'Context' is described as the circumstances, surroundings, environment, or setting in which particular words are used by the author. <u><em>This setting or environment allows the readers to determine, specify, or clarify the meaning of the word amd understand the meaning of the event or occurrence comprehensively</em></u>. The defintion of words keeps varying as per the contexts in which they are used and hence, the context influences the meaning or effect created by a word. Thus, a reader must be aware of it for a better comprehension.