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Another device that swift uses to develop his satire is hyperbole, a figure of speech in which the truth is exaggerated for emphases or to create humor, identify an example of hyperbole in Swift’s essay and describe its effect

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The overstated "proposal" knocks the reader back, but certain passages in the essay seem to carry an undercurrent of real, sustaining anger and iconoclasm. In the following passage, Swift changes his tone from satire to serious compassion, even if there remains a tinge of hyperbole in his statement.

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