1. #61 Modest Proposal 12/8
What is Swift suggesting should be done to help the economic situation in Ireland?
Why is this satire? What is the moral point being made?
What devices are used?
Please have your rhetorical triangle out and open on your desk.
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2. Vocabulary Current Event due WEDS- Money or economic issue.
objectivity
penitent
quandary
poignant
reclamation
Current Event due WEDS- Money or economic issue.
Heart of Darkness- read to page 50- THROUGH CHAPTER 2 by Friday

3. #62 Syntax 12/8 Length: telegraphic (shorter than five words),
Declarative, Interrogative? or exclamatory!
A cumulative or loose sentence has the main point at the beginning of a long sentence : We reached Edmonton that morning after a turbulent flight and some exciting experiences.
A periodic sentence has the main point at the end of a long sentence: That morning, after a turbulent flight and some exciting experiences, we reached Edmonton.

4. #62 Syntax 12/8
Which is it?
1. I am willing to pay slightly higher taxes for the privilege of living in Canada, considering the free health care, the cheap tuition fees, the low crime rate, the comprehensive social programs, and the wonderful winters.

5. # 62 Syntax 12/8
Which is it?
1. I am willing to pay slightly higher taxes for the privilege of living in Canada, considering the free health care, the cheap tuition fees, the low crime rate, the comprehensive social programs, and the wonderful winters.
CUMULATIVE.
2. How could you write it as a periodic sentence?

6. #62 Syntax 12/8
2. PERIODIC. Considering the free health care, the cheap tuition fees, the low crime rate, the comprehensive social programs, and the wonderful winters, I am willing to pay slightly higher taxes for the privilege of living in Canada.

7. #62 Syntax 12/8
Inverted Sentence: Sentences in which the verb comes before the subject are“inverted”.
Also known as anastrophe
to achieve a particular effect of emphasis or meter.
NOT INVERTED: The haunted house sits down that dark path.
INVERTED: Down that dark path sits the haunted house.

8. Modest Proposal Questions PAGE 410
On a piece of paper
Work with a friend, but each needs his or her own paper. 
Will be collected WEDS. We will also do Multiple Choice questions Wednesday based on “A Modest Proposal.”
For Discussion: 1,3,5, 8
Rhetoric and Style: 2,4, 8, 10