Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 4 AIL 0334 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Naming Swift's Tone
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The idea
The manner is level and reportorial; the matter is atrocious; the target is a governing class indifferent to Irish poverty. By the anchor's definitions that is Juvenalian satire working through sustained verbal irony. A tone answer here must account for the calm, not ignore it.
In practice
Juvenalian, through sustained irony.
Where people slip
Any answer must explain the calm.
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