Which statement best explains Swift's use of rhetorical devices in this passage? And besides, it is not improbable that some scrupulous people might be apt to censure 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 any project, how well soever intended. -"A Modest Proposal," Jonathan Swift O Swift uses verbal irony when he mentions objections to his plan in order to prove that no one could possibly object to the proposal. O Swift uses verbal irony when he says his plan is "a little bordering upon cruelty" because his plan is not at all cruel. O Swift uses understatement and irony when he says his plan is "a little bordering on cruelty" to highlight how cruel the plan really is.​

Which of the following statements most closely reflects the author's description of the action taken by the united states supreme court in cases brought before them having to do with the japanese internment? a. "three years almost to the day, the supreme court decided that imprisoning japanese-americans was unconstitutional. " b. "the supreme court decided in favor of the japanese-americans in the very first case brought before them." c. "fred korematsu had plastic surgery and changed his name to avoid internment, making it the deciding case in the issue." d. "in april 1942 mitsue endo lost his habeus corpus case, thus postponing the supreme court's negative decision."

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(1) fire extended humans’ geographical boundaries by allowing them to travel into regions that were previously too cold to explore. (2) it also kept predators away, allowing early humans to sleep securely. (3) fire, in fact, has been a significant factor in human development and progress in many ways. (4) other obvious benefits of fire are its uses in cooking and in hunting. (5) probably even more important, however, is that learning to control fire allowed people to change the very rhythm of their lives. (6) before fire, the human daily cycle coincided with the rising and setting of the sun. (7) with fire, though, humans gained time to think and talk about the day’s events and to prepare strategies for coping with tomorrow. the sentence that expresses the main idea is: (type the number of the sentence. then click “go.”)