D )) none of the above
I’ve done this before I remember
The answer is “a” it means to make some angry or stir up violence
At every point of Swift proposal the reader from today gets the idea he is being ironic.This way he is critisizing the attitudes an ideas of the time.In order to improve a financial situation people would sell their souls.Contemporaries could not understand and tought of it as a sacrifice, today it is something different, the idea is satirizised
When bricking a building: masons must fit the bricks together; sometimes they slice bricks in half for a better fit.