Jonathan Swift: “Description of a City Shower”

For this answer you should provide two very specific pieces of evidence in the form of quotations. Be specific in your discussion and analysis of the text. When using quotation, provide line numbers for poetry and volume/chapters for novels, page numbers for short story.

Your evidence should come from different places in the text to show that you read the whole thing and to demonstrate that your argument applies to the whole text and not just one small part.
You should follow your evidence with explanation that clearly shows why that evidence proves your point.

Question

1. Choose one moment where Swift uses the comedic strategy of exaggeration. Explain how the exaggeration works and discuss the effect this passage has on the poem, and how it relates to the overall message Swift wants to convey.

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Jonathan Swift: Description of a City Shower

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