Read the selection below from Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and answer the question that follows.
[O]ur first or chief minister of state was a person wholly exempt from joy and grief, love and hatred, pity and anger; at least, makes use of no other passions, but a violent desire of wealth, power, and titles.
Which satirical element is most dominant in the passage above?
simile
innuendo
exaggeration
understatement