A MODEST PROPOSAL

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Across
  1. 1. - The mocking tone Swift often uses
  2. 3. - The wealthy upper class criticized in the essay
  3. 5. - The rhetorical style using irony and exaggeration to criticize society
  4. 9. - A type of argument intended to convince an audience
  5. 12. - English policies that limited Irish trade and economic growth
Down
  1. 2. - The economic and political system in which a powerful nation exploits another territory
  2. 4. - The author of A Modest Proposal
  3. 6. - Treating people unfairly for economic gain
  4. 7. - The nationality of the oppressed people in the essay
  5. 8. - Severe lack of food affecting Ireland
  6. 9. - The condition of widespread financial hardship in Ireland
  7. 10. - The ruling country over Ireland during Swift’s lifetime
  8. 11. - The shocking use of babies proposed in the essay