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What is the tone Swift is using in "A Modest Proposal"?

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Answer: thank me later

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The speaker's tone is completely earnest and uses logic and factual information to support his position. It is clear that to him, if to nobody else, killing and eating the babies of the Irish poor is a perfectly reasonable solution to the situation of mass poverty in Ireland

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