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Jonathan Swift Rhetorical Techniques

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I liked reading about how exaggeration and incongruity were used in other works; it is helping me to look deeper into the topic I have! Swift 's ridiculous story to point out some awful things that were happening in his day. It 's funny to think how these techniques are still used today to point out things amiss in today 's society as

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