Board work 1/12-

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Board work 1/12-

• Eng IV

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Good Advice

• How do people make their advice convincing? What
  are some techniques for getting people to agree
  with you? List as many as you can think of and
  give examples of how to use them.
• Have you ever had difficulty making people
  understand you? How does such a situation make
  you feel? Why? What would you do in such a
  case?
• How do you react when someone doesnt listen to
  you and then gets in trouble because of it? Are
  you smug? Forgiving? Annoyed? Why?

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A Modest Proposal

• What does the title of A Modest Proposal mean?
  What expectations do we have based upon the
  title?
• What problem is Swift addressing in the essay?
  What caused this problem?
• Outline the advice Swift gives in the essay.
• How does he justify his advice? What reasons
  does he give for it?

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Swifts Satire

• What style of satire is this? How do you know?
  Support with evidence from the text.
• What verbal irony does Swift use in each of the
  following parts of the essay?
• The title
• Lines 59-60 (I shall nowleast objection.)
• Lines 135-145 (Some personsevils to come.)
• Based upon the essay, do you think satire is an
  effective means of fighting injustice? Why or why
  not? Use the text for evidence.

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Create your own Satire!

• Now that youve read two types of Satire, its
  time to create your own. Pick something that
  annoys you and satirize it. Use Hyperbole,
  Irony, and a humorous tone to describe it or your
  response to it. Choose whether you will be
  light-hearted and Horatian in your satire, or
  whether you will be cold, bitter and Juvenalian.
  Then well trade, and identify what kind of
  Satire youve written!