Read this passage from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal": those who are more thrifty (as i must confess the times require) may flay the carcass; the skin of which artificially dressed will make admirable gloves for ladies, and summer boots for fine gentlemen. which statement best explains swift's use of rhetoric in this passage? a. swift uses satire to reveal his belief that the country is facing severe economic hardship. b. swift uses irony to reveal his belief that people should take better care of their possessions. c. swift uses satire to reveal his belief that children's skin will make nice gloves and boots. d. swift uses hyperbole to reveal his belief that gloves made of children's skin are superior.

Read this adapted excerpt from a famous poem by john keats. this poem is about a beautiful vase with intricate shapes and patterns. you, silent form, do tease us out of thought as does etemity: cold pastorall when old age shall this generation waste, you shall remain in the middle of other woe than ours, a friend to man, to whom you say "beauty is truth, truth beauty that is all you know on earth, and all you need to know what is the poet saying when he writes that "old age shall this generation waste"? the poet is expressing his dread of growing older the poet is mourning the changes he sees in his "generation." the poet is saying that beauty is illusionary and short-lived. the poet is saying that people don't live long; life is brief