Part1. Satire relies on many techniques usually associated with comedy, including exaggeration,
understatement, warped logic, improbable situations, and ridiculous names. Make a chart where you list each
of the five techniques and many examples you can find for each technigue in A Modest Proposal and The
Rape of the Locke. Part 2. Use the details you gathered on that chart to write a brief analysis of Swift’s or
Pope’s humor. When you analyze something, you take it apart and examine its elements to see how it works.
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