It created a weak federal government with no powers to impose taxes or regulate trade.
In this excerpt from Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal", the statement that best describes how irony is used in the excerpt is <em>"Swift states that he is speaking from "the sincerity in (his) heart."</em>
Swift is going to state his "modest proposal". He writes about how Ireland is suffering for being under British rule. How impoverished couples have trouble feeding their children. Mothers and children beg on the streets. To avoid this, Swift suggests in a satirical way that women should sell their children to rich English landowners, so they will serve them as meals. He could not seriously write this from the sincerity of his heart, this is ironical.
Justice. At first, the lawyer accepts the bet in order to
prove that life imprisonment was preferable to death. He then spends the next
fifteen years in solitary confinement. When the time is almost up, he writes a
note to the banker saying he realized he was not in it for the money, but
rather to prove his point.
The correct option is statement 3.
The statement shows that Nora desired to please her husband by doing the things her husband want, in this case she desire to keep her home beautiful just the way her husband like it. This implies that she respects what her husband likes and devote herself to pleasing him.
