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A Modest Proposal/Gulliver’s Travels Key Concepts

A Modest Proposal/Gulliver’s Travels Satire A literary work that uses irony, humor, and other techniques to point out problems and criticize the people who are causing them.

A Modest Proposal/Gulliver’s Travels

Analyze Text Structure Identify the pattern of organization a writer uses to present his or her ideas.

A Modest Proposal/Gulliver’s Travels By Jonathan Swift Written in England around the early 1700’s

A Modest Proposal/Gulliver’s Travels Parody A parody is a humorous imitation of a literary work that aims to point out the work’s shortcomings. Parodies usually imitate some defining characteristic of the work’s style. Gulliver’s Travels is in part a parody of early-eighteenth-century travel books, which delighted in describing exotic places and people.

A Modest Proposal/Gulliver’s Travels Making Inferences Inferring is using your reason and experience to guess at what an author does not say directly. Most works have an implied theme, which you must infer by considering all the elements of a story and asking what message about life the author conveys.