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by BlastRoom
Close-reading questions on Swift's satiric persona, cold arithmetic, and final reversal.
#literature
20 questions
One question set, multiple game modes. Tap any game to see it in action. Not sure which to pick?
Answer to place stones and capture territory.
Outrun the snow together.
Earn blasts, then hunt the other team.
Answer to earn energy, then climb.
The class blasts through walls together.
Bid on mystery lots. Most money wins.
Sell tours. Nice, standard, or a total scam.
Answer, restock, and serve the rush.
More correct answers pulls the rope your way.
Answer, then shoot down the alien wave.
Answer, then tap to leap the frozen ridge.
The essay opens with the “melancholy object” of poor mothers and ragged children in the streets. What does that opening prepare the reader to feel?
The speaker says he has “maturely weighed” other schemes before offering his own. What persona is Swift building?
The repeated language of “humbly” proposing and offering “my own thoughts” mainly creates what effect?
When the speaker treats poor infants as stock to be managed, what authorial target comes into view?
Why does the speaker cite “a very knowing American” before revealing the food proposal?
After several paragraphs of calm reasoning, the speaker finally states his proposal. What does he propose?
The speaker calculates births, weights, prices, and numbers reserved for breeding. What does that arithmetic do?
Words such as “breeders,” “carcass,” and “sale” describe people in the essay. What is the effect of that diction?
The speaker says landlords have “devoured most of the parents” and therefore have the best title to the children. What is Swift doing?
The proposal lists cooking methods and market benefits in the same calm tone as policy advice. What tonal mismatch results?
The essay follows a public proposal pattern: problem, calculations, remedy, advantages, objections. Why keep that structure?
Why does Swift delay the exact remedy until after the opening scene and several computations?
When practical details like season, price, and supply are treated as the main issues, what is being parodied?
The speaker numbers advantages of the plan, including profit and fewer burdens on poor families. What is the satiric point?
Late in the essay, “taxing our absentees” appears among rejected expedients. What target is Swift naming?
One rejected remedy is using only Irish-made clothing and furniture. What social problem does that point toward?
The speaker presents reducing Catholics in Ireland as one “advantage” of the plan. What target does this expose?
When the speaker says, in effect, “let no man talk to me” of other expedients, what happens structurally?
The rejected alternatives include loving the country, quitting faction, and teaching landlords mercy. What reversal do they create?
The speaker closes by insisting he has “not the least personal interest,” noting his youngest child is nine and his wife past child-bearing. What does the ending do?
Crack the passcode before the zombies get in.
Answer, then swat bugs for bonus points.
Race through questions at your own speed.
Same question on every screen. Fastest wins.
Pick a tile, answer, hit bonuses and steals.
Self-Reliance and Civil Disobedience
25 questions
