Immigration Project: Blog 4- Irony

"Irony"can be defined as an expression or utterance marked by a deliberate contrast between apparent and intended meaning; however, a better way to describe "irony" in this instance is the following: a literary style used by authors that used such contrast for a witty or rehtorical effect. Irony can also be used to surprise or shock an audience; it is , in this case, used to grab an audience's attention to a subject by using exaggeration, sarcasm, and other tools to directly shock them into thinking about and perusing the subject at hand. Such contrast and ridiculousness is used, that the audience cannot help but see wit in the difference in between their realistic beliefs and what is being said.In certain kinds of situational or historical irony that occur outside works of fiction, a factual truth is highlighted by some person's complete ignorance, or belief in the opposite, of it's catches your attention directly because such twechniques as this, spark the human rain into saying, "hey, wait a minute...you just sed that you felt the opposite...". In a satire, Irony has a particular purpose;it is used to grab an audinece's attention, not to sway them to your belifs, but rather to bring their attention to the subject at hand. In a satire, the author starts out by representing a topic or problem that he wishes to address; then he gives his beliefs aout the topic, before even proposing his ridiculous idea. And usually, in order to actually make the article important, his beliefs on the topic are very thorough and correct and easy for a citizen to connect to. Now if an author were to give good, thorough opinions about a problem in society, and then totally contadict himself, this would set an audience off. This would make them think, "hey this is stupid...I bet I could come up with a better resolution". And then the author's purpose is fullfilled because his audience is really thinking about the topic.
The propser and Swift in A Modest Proposal are quite different from eachother. This is because Swift would not suggest that we kill and eat babies in order to fix over population and poverty. He is really trying to help the people of Ireland, not kill them. This is where the Irony comes into his Satire. What this article consists of is completely ridiculous!Swift is completely cotridicting huimself He is completely going against his own beliefs and realisticness in order to grab his audience's attention and to make them think about the social problems going on.