Question

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Answer 1

Answer:

Answer is Option D: Then as to the females, ſeating children) would, I think, with  humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they sool

would become breeders themselves.

Explanation:

The main theme of the story "Modest Proposal" is social class. It highlights the difference between the rich and poor Irish. He uses satire to highlight the oppression of the poor.

An understatement is depicting something in a way that it looks less bad or seems less important. In the statement D, the author uses an understatement where he says women eat children and later become their mothers themselves. This is a cruel act of acting children but depicted as understatement that Women become breeders.

Other options are not understatements.