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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,
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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

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I believe it is exaggeration due to the fact that the word exempt means free of and no human simply be free for human emotions unless said chief minister is diagnosed as such by a professional
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