... that is particularly that English people are better off than the Irish. One can plainly see, however, that Swift's use of numerous amounts of rhetorical devices in his solutions to the Irish prove that he is intending to only engage in playful humor regarding the topic of their current economic position, and ... can be seen through his use of irony, exaggeration, and understatement. One of the rhetorical devices used by Jonathan Swift in "A Modest Proposal" was irony. Irony is irony that is used when someone says something that actually has a different ... the fact that Swift was only us...

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George Orwell employs a variety of allegorical devices in his novel 'Animal Farm' including personification, naive narrative and irony to produce an allegory that voices his concerns over the outcome of ... actually was. Orwell uses personification as an efficient way to express the nature of the targets of his critique in the time Animal Farm was written. This literary device in the novel was an intellectual way for Orwell to escape the social restrictions brought about by the public's support for Russia, yet at the ... about their stereotypical beliefs or ideas of power and the manipul...

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Humor, irony and satire are technically distinct elements of literature. They have different origins. They are used in different ways with different purposes. The literary works have different modes. Each of them evokes different kind of fun and sense of pleasure. Satire is the general term, which often emphasizes the weakness more than the weak ... 's use of irony, satire, and humor will be presented in this essay. In "A Modest Proposal" and Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift, satire, irony, and humor are the main literary devices. A way irony in which the author involves the audience...

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... in poetry to the Library of Congress a position commonly referred to as the American equivalent of the British poet laureate designation. In "Middle Passage" Hayden uses standard epic conventions and devices and alters and inverts them to his liking. His inversion technique of the epic has been called by some critics an "ant-epic." His journey is that of the slave ... the truths hardships of slavery. Robert Hayden uses his extensive knowledge of literature to make a new genre of slave poetry, but all of them recognized the effectiveness of irony as a literary device. ...

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