A Modest Proposal / Satire

Question 1

curate

Answer 1

a clergyman appointed to assist a parish priest

Question 2

desponding

Answer 2

to lose heart or hope; become disheartened; despair

Question 3

emulation

Answer 3

the effort or desire to equal or surpass another or others

Question 4

expedient

Answer 4

something suitable or appropriate, esp something used during an urgent situation

Question 5

encumbrance

Answer 5

something that encumbers; something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance:

Question 6

Importuning

Answer 6

to harass with persistent requests; demand of (someone) insistently

Question 7

parsimony

Answer 7

extreme care or reluctance in spending; frugality; niggardliness

Question 8

prudence

Answer 8

wise or judicious in practical affairs; sagacious; discreet or circumspect; sober.

Question 9

raiment

Answer 9

clothing; apparel; attire.

Question 10

temperance

Answer 10

self control

Question 11

Mockery

Answer 11

To make fun of something

Ex: “Man is the only animal that blushes—or needs to.” -Mark Twain

Question 12

Sarcasm

Answer 12

A harsh, personally directed comment; to use praise to mock someone

Ex: “I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse!”

Question 13

Overstatement

Answer 13

To say more than you mean to say; to exaggerate

Ex: “I’m so hungry that I could eat a horse!”

Question 14

Understatement

Answer 14

To say less than you mean to say

Ex: “Mount Everest is not small.”

Question 15

Parody

Answer 15

Mockery of a specific, known person, literary work, movie, event

Ex: General MacArthur said, “Old soldiers never die, they just fade away.” Parodies: “Old blondes never fade, they just dye away.” “Old soldiers never die, but young ones do.”

Question 16

Irony

Answer 16

To say one thing, yet to mean another

Ex: In Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet, when Romeo tells Mercutio that his wound is slight. Mercutio says, “No, it’s not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door; but ‘tis enough, ‘twill serve.”

Question 17

Bathos

Answer 17

To go from the serious to the ridiculous quickly.

Ex: “I love my country, my wife, my job, and chocolate candy.”

Question 18

Mock-Heroic

Answer 18

Imitates, yet exaggerates and distorts, the literary epic and its style

Ex:“The garbage man, tall and strong, lifted his glittering can of rubbish high, as if it were a feather, and with the strength of Thor, hurled it into the dumpster.”

Question 19

Logical appeals

Answer 19

supporting a position with evidence such as facts or statistics

Question 20

Emotional appeals

Answer 20

passages that use words that arouse strong feelings

Question 21

Ethical appeals

Answer 21

passages that establish the writer as sincere and qualified to make the remarks