Read the excerpt from "a modest proposal."

i have been assured by a very knowing american of my acquaintance in london, that a young healthy child well nursed, is, at a year old, a most delicious nourishing and wholesome food, whether stewed, roasted, baked, or boiled; and i make no doubt that it will equally serve in a fricasie, or a ragoust.

why did swift most likely deliver his proposal in a casual manner?

a. to highlight to the reader that the government would likely agree with his plan
b. to emphasize that he is serious about implementing his plan
c. to show the reader that his plan is reasonable and no cause for alarm
d. to grab the reader’s attention by using understatement to talk about brutal acts

Which lines in this excerpt from act ii of william shakespeare’s romeo and juliet reveal that mercutio thinks romeo would be better off if he stopped thinking about love? mercutio: i will bite thee by the ear for that jest. romeo: nay, good goose, bite not. mercutio: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting it is a most sharp sauce. romeo: and is it not well served in to a sweet goose? mercutio: o here's a wit of cheveril, that stretches from an inch narrow to an ell broad! romeo: i stretch it out for that word 'broad; ' which added to the goose, proves thee far and wide a broad goose. mercutio: why, is not this better now than groaning for love? now art thou sociable, now art thou romeo; now art thou what thou art, by art as well as by nature: for this drivelling love is like a great natural, that runs lolling up and down to hide his bauble in a hole. benvolio: stop there, stop there. mercutio: thou desirest me to stop in my tale against the hair. benvolio: thou wouldst else have made thy tale large. mercutio: o, thou art deceived; i would have made it short: for i was come to the whole depth of my tale; and meant, indeed, to occupy the argument no longer.

2.she could not believe the such a vile act would be committed .

Me in a short paragraph of at least 200 words, compare and contrast how miguel de cervantes’s use of figurative language differs from language use by ha jin. use at least two examples of textual evidence to support your answer.