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What is the meaning of each underlined word in these excerpts from "a modest proposal" by jonathan swift? i think it is agreed by all parties, that this prodigious number of children in the arms, or on the backs, or at the heels of their mothers, and frequently of their fathers, is in the present deplorable state of the kingdom, a very great additional grievance; and therefore whoever could find out a fair, cheap and easy method of making these children sound and useful members of the common-wealth, would deserve so well of the publick, as to have his statue set up for a preserver of the nation. some persons of a desponding spirit are in great concern about that vast number of poor people, who are aged, diseased, or maimed; and i have been desired to employ my thoughts what course may be taken, to ease the nation of so grievous an incumbrance. the word prodigious means . the word desponding means .

Lines 47–56: determine the central idea of these lines

Neighbors peered at us as we walked by their eyes weighed us their eyes judged us and at the peered we straightened our backs and lifted our chins in contempt we didn’t care what they thought what rhetorical technique dose the passage best exemplify a: understatement b: parallelism c: hyperbole d: satire