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which is the term best describes this statement from a modest proposal, the poorer tenants will have something valuable of their own... and help to pay their landlords rent, their corn and cattle being already seized, and money a thing unknown. A understatement B exaggeration C sarcasm D style

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The correct answer is option C: Sarcasm

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Modest proposal is seen as one of the best satire ever written that is why this statement is sarcasm as this is also meet with irony.

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