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.
Answer:
the process of rewording a given passage into a more concise manner.
Explanation:
Paraphrasing is the process of rewording a given passage into a more concised manner.
The above passage can be paraphrased into:
Christopher Clausen says that there is a conflicting nature among the common ideals of work, vocation and career especially the one that has gone through a lot hardships among the three.
Americans in an attempt to achieve these ideals have dedicated an abnormal amount of devotion. He says that every dream have become like a task with its own uniforms, disciplines and special lingo.
