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Scorpions thrive in the dry desert.
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The mentioned statement from Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal can best be described as hyperbolic and ironic. It is hyperbolic in the sense that buying infant flesh (and as implied, eating them) is an over exaggerated solution to the problem being discussed. It is also ironic because Swift is proposing to eat the infants so that they won't have to die of malnutrition and diseases.
