Question

2 Pointe

Which phrase from the proposal is an example of understatement?
A. Some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about
that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or
maimed...
B. I grant this food (children] will be somewhat dear, and therefore
very proper for landlords, who, as they have already devoured
most of the parents, seem to have the best title to the children,
O
C. And the money will circulate among our selves, the goods being
entirely of our own growth and manufacture,
O
D. Then as to the females, ſeating children) would, I think, with
humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they sool
would become breeders themselves...

Answer 1

Answer is Option D: Then as to the females, ſeating children) would, I think, with humble submission, be a loss to the publick, because they sool

would become breeders themselves.

Step-by-step explanation:

The main theme of the story "Modest Proposal" is social class. It highlights the difference between the rich and poor Irish. He uses satire to highlight the oppression of the poor.

An understatement is depicting something in a way that it looks less bad or seems less important. In the statement D, the author uses an understatement where he says women eat children and later become their mothers themselves. This is a cruel act of acting children but depicted as understatement that Women become breeders.

Other options are not understatements.