Question

Read this excerpt from "A Modest Proposal" by Jonathan Swift:

Answer 1

This excerpt is written in first person.

Grammatical persons are traits that express a relationship of the people referenced in a speech act with that act. It distinguishes the first person, who is the transmitter of spoken; the second person who would be the receiver or who listens and the third person who is any person independent of the transmitter and receiver.

To realize that the first person is spoken, we notice that the "I" is used to describe the personal pronoun, as is done in this text.

Answer 2

I would say first person,(1),sense they use the word "I" which means that they are explaining things from their point of veiw.