Answer:
Tense
Explanation:
I would say that because the feeling of that specific atmosphere is giving off neither one of embarrassment, peaceful or satisfied if anything this conversation isn't meant for 'Alice' to feel good about what ever the situation is about.
I don't know if that helped
It suggests a satirical and simple proposal to the problem starving Ireland faced: the lack of food to feed the people.
Of course, the entire modest proposal was that parents eat and sell their children as food and the idea was meant as satire, meaning to be considered with a grain of salt and not seriously (kind of like a really dark joke).
''Modest'' means that the proposal was obvious and simple in the eyes of the author Jonathan Swift but not necessarily in the eyes of others. ''Proposal'' means the general answer to the problem Swift was answering.
Hope this helps! :)
