Which sentence best paraphrases the excerpt?
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Read the excerpt from "A Modest Proposal."
A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme. He said, that many gentlemen of this kingdom, having of late destroyed their deer, he conceived that the want of venison might be well supply'd by the bodies of young lads and maidens.
The underlined portions of the excerpt are examples of verbal irony because
b. anyone who is truly virtuous or patriotic would not suggest using children for food, so Swift means the opposite of what he says.
A very worthy person, a true lover of his country, and whose virtues I highly esteem, was lately pleased, in discoursing on this matter, to offer a refinement upon my scheme. He said, that many gentlemen of this kingdom, having of late destroyed their deer, he conceived that the want of venison might be well supply'd by the bodies of young lads and maidens.
The underlined portions of the excerpt are examples of verbal irony because
b. anyone who is truly virtuous or patriotic would not suggest using children for food, so Swift means the opposite of what he says.
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