By: Sophia, Claire, Catie, & Taylor A Modest Proposal By: Sophia, Claire, Catie, & Taylor

Lived in England and Ireland Jonathan Swift: Lived in England and Ireland Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer, poet and cleric Dean of St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin.

A Modest Proposal Overview Written by Jonathan Swift in 1729, a Modest Proposal satirizes the wealthy English landlords for taking advantage and exploiting the Irish for their resources and labor, and trapping them in a cycle of poverty.

Logos Logos is a literary device and an appeal to logic, and is a way of persuading an audience by reason. Logos is used throughout “A Modest Proposal” through Swift’s use of statistics and facts, which makes it easy to understand and follow.

Quote #1: “The number of souls in this kingdom being reckoned one million and a half, of these I calculate there may be two hundred thousand couple whose wives are breeders; from which number I subtract thirty thousand couples who are able to maintain their own children…”

Quote #1 Explanation: Uses numbers, along with equations to create a logical appeal Swift uses statistics to get his point across Statistics make the point he’s making sound accurate and matter of fact, even though it isn’t

Quote #2 “I have already computed the charge of nursing a beggar’s child… to be about two shillings per annum, rags included; and I believe no gentleman would repine to give ten shillings for the carcass of a good, fat child...

Quote #2 Explanation: Jonathan swift uses concrete numbers and facts to persuade his audience Appeals to logos by presenting the information in a logical and easy to understand fashion such as statistics.

Quote #3 “Infant’s flesh will be in season throughout the year, but more plentiful in March...reckoning a year before Lent; the markets will be more glutted than usual, because the number of popish infants is at least three to one in this kingdom…”

Quote #3 Explanation: Instead of using numbers and statistics, this quote uses facts to persuade the audience He is providing a “logical” solution to this problem, by saying he has already done the calculations and can conclude we will never run out of babies to eat

Quote #4 At the end his proposal, Swift summarizes his ideas using words like firstly, secondly, thirdly, etc, which organizes his ideas and presents them very logically and matter-of- factly and easy to follow, similar to a business proposal or plan.