"...although I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs." (433). A quote from Swift's "A Modest Proposal" referring to his proposal to reduce the people of Ireland to nothing more than livestock; to sale, breed, eat and skin. This particular piece of literature is an example of verbal irony stretched

Whether it be a parody or verbal irony stretched to its limits satires, have a special place inside literature. With twisted humor, warped logic, over exaggeration and irony, satires transcend above other literary works with such skilled persuasive writing from Jonathan Smith and the comedic imitations of Miguel Cervantes. Without true satirist like Smith and Cervantes to write of the worlds misfortunes the world is truly a darker place. The works of these men will forever be immortalized as long as the satire is kept alive by using the techniques of these master satirists'. In the everlasting epitaph of Jonathan Smith "Go, traveler, and imitate, if you can, one who strove with all his strength to champion liberty."

The objective of "A Modest Proposal" was to exploit the English's wrong doing and invoke sympathy for the Irish with irony and Miguel de Cervantes' "Don Quixote" on the other hand, was a parody written to poke fun at every aspect of the medieval romance and its heroic knights. A parody is an imitation of other literature transferred into a humorous spectrum aimed to ridicule the literary style from which it was derived. This particular form of a satire (a parody) is to take the characteristics of someone or something and make them ridiculous and that is what they did in the novel "Don Quixote". The story of Don Quixote is of a man who after reading countless books of chivalry, knighthood and romance was driven to a state of insanity in which Don believed he was knight. As the story goes Don ripped the old rusty armor hanging from his wall, went into town acquired a squire named Pancho, who was a local

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