But with due deference to so excellent a friend, and so deserving a patriot, I cannot be altogether in his sentiments; for as to the males, my American acquaintance assured me from frequent experience, that their flesh was generally tough and lean, like that of our school-boys, by continual exercise, and their taste disagreeable, and to fatten them would not answer the charge. –“A Modest Proposal,” Jonathan Swift Which statement best describes Swift’s use of rhetorical devices in this passage?

Read the excerpt from the iroquois constitution. all lords of the five nations confederacy must be honest in all things. . it shall be a serious wrong for anyone to lead a lord into trivial affairs, for the people must ever hold their lords high in estimation out of respect to their honorable positions. what is the main idea of this excerpt? members of the five nations confederacy should know how to show respect to their lords. the lords of the five nations confederacy hold high-ranking positions. the people of the five nations confederacy deserve respect and should be held in high esteem. the lords of the five nations confederacy should act honorably and be revered.