A Modest ProposalBy Brogan Dineen Jacob Gaydos Jacqueline Grundfast Sarah Walker Julia Younan Asyndeton Definition. The omission or absence of aconjunction between parts of a Usage of Asyndeton I profess in the sincerity of my heart that Ihave not the least personal interest in.endeavoring to promote this necessary work having no other motive than the public good ofmy country by advancing our trade providingfor infants relieving the poor and giving somepleasure to the rich Paragraph 33 . Analysis of AsyndetonJonathan Swift utilises this technique to keepfrom drawing out his final point as to not losethe reader s interest in the final words of hisconclusion As well as this it allows the reading.to become more dramatic and effective throughspeeding up the reader s pace the repetition of the same word or words atthe beginning of successive phrases clauses or sentences commonly in conjunction with.climax and with parallelism Usage of Anaphora Of taxing our absentees at five shillings apound Of using neither cloaths nor householdfurniture except what is of our own growth and.manufacture Of utterly rejecting the materialsand instruments that promote foreign luxury Ofcuring the expensiveness of pride vanity idleness and gaming in our women Of Analysis of Anaphora.Anaphora is used by Jonathan Swift in order toemphasize the voice of reason in the work Heproposes realistic solutions to the problem ofthe absentee landlords and through thepurposeful repetition of Of Swift is able to.concisely and clearly express his actual proposalto the audience A short and interesting story often proposedto support or demonstrate some point andmake readers laugh and brood over the topic.presented for the purpose Usage of Anecdote It is melancholy to object those who walk through thisgreat town or travel in the country when they see thestreets the roads and the cabin doors crowded with.beggars of the female sex followed by three four or sixchildren all in rags and importuning every passenger foran alms These mothers instead of being able to workfor their honest livelihood are forced to employ all theirtime in strolling to beg sustenance for their helpless.infants 11 Analysis of AnecdoteSwift employs an anecdote at the beginning ofthis piece to introduce a situation in which his proposal would be most effective He draws.the reader into his world in order to help themfully understand the issue at hand and his planto fix it Verbal Irony is When words express something.contrary to truth or someone says theopposite of what they really feel or Often very sarcastic Usage of Irony Verbal Then as to the females it would I think with humble.submission be a loss to the public because they soonwould become breeders themselves and besides it is notimprobable that some scrupulous people might be apt tocensure such a practice although indeed very unjustly as a little bordering upon cruelty which I confess hath.always been with me the strongest objection against anyproject however so well intended Analysis of IronySwift uses irony in this passage to stress howridiculous this proposal is The suggestion of.eating children to lessen poverty is one ofextreme cruelty By saying that it is a littlebordering upon cruelty shows that Swift is notserious in his suggestion Visually descriptive or figurative.language especially in a literary work For instance the addition of some thousand carcasses inour exportation of barreled beef the propagation ofswine s flesh and the improvement in the art of makinggood bacon so much wanted by the great destruction of.pigs too frequent at our tables which are no waycomparable in taste or magnificence to a well grown fat yearling child which roasted whole will make aconsiderable figure at a lord mayor s feast or any otherpublic entertainment 19. Analysis of ImageryBy using this imagery swift is able to show howsevere his proposal is by making the readerthink of a child roasted like a pig which is avery disturbing thought . Literary DevicesA Modest ProposalLiterary Devices Analysis . A Modest Proposal. By: Brogan Dineen, Jacob Gaydos, Jacqueline Grundfast, Sarah Walker, Julia Younan. Asyndeton Definition. The omission or absence of a conjunction between parts of a sentence. Usage of Asyndeton