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How does the title, "A Modest Proposal," tell the reader that the piece is satirical?

How does the title, "A Modest Proposal," tell the reader that the piece is satirical?
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How does the title, "A Modest Proposal," tell the reader that the piece is satirical?

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(c) The author’s proposal is actually extreme and violent, not gentle as the title says.

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Satire is taking real world events and exacerbating the shortcomings. The word "modest" indicates to the reader that the material they are about to read is anything but modest.
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