Answer:
1. Three
2. Aabb
3. Fixed form
Explanation:
Think of the excerpt they gave us as paragraphs instead of stanzas . There are three large chunks in the passage which would make it three stanzas . The rhyme scheme would be aabb because of its constant rhyming through each line . And the poetic structure the author uses is fixed form due to how he interprets his poem in a mannerly structure .
The excerpt is the following:
<em>As to our City of Dublin, shambles may be appointed for this purpose, in the most convenient parts of it, and butchers we may be assured will not be wanting; although I rather recommend buying the children alive, and dressing them hot from the knife, as we do roasting pigs.</em>
Answer:
He states that sending children to the butcher would be as simple as "roasting pigs."
Explanation:
An understatement is a figure of speech that consists of intentionally representing something less important or smaller than it really is. This is what Swift uses when he suggests that sending children to the butcher would be as simple as "roasting pigs." The author employs this figure of speech to catch the readers' attention and to criticize Irish society and its attitude toward the condition of poor farmers and laborers who can not feed their children due to the high rent they have to pay to their landowners. In order to improve the poor's economic situation, they'd better sell their children off as food to feed the wealthy.
Answer:
- The missing pages in Dr. Yu Tsun's statement become an extended metaphor <u>that helps solve the mystery</u>.
Explanation:
The pretentious student of history continues to reveal his trump card. It's a statement or a type of oral declaration given by an observer to be utilized in a preliminary. For this situation, the affidavit is managed by a man named Dr. Yu Tsun, and the initial two pages are absent.
The remainder of the story is the testimony, told from the perspective of Dr. Yu Tsun. Since the initial two pages are "missing," we begin in mid-sentence.
Situational irony. He would have been able to find the flashlight had the light not gone out, so it is situational.
