Question

Read the passage from Gulliver's Travels.

He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers. He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor’s gardens with sunshine, at a reasonable rate: but he complained that his stock was low, and entreated me "to give him something as an encouragement to ingenuity, especially since this had been a very dear season for cucumbers."

Which phrase from the passage best helps the reader to identify the passage as a satire?

He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers
which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed
He told me, he did not doubt, that, in eight years more, he should be able to supply the governor’s gardens
but he complained that his stock was low

Answer 1

Answer :

Cambridge English Dictionary defines "satire" as "a way of criticizing people or ideas in a humorous way, especially in order to make a political point, or a piece of writing that uses this style."

The following phrase from the passage best helps the reader to identify the passage as a satire :

He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers.

This passage has been taken from part three of Gulliver's Travels. It is a satire based on the Royal Society's scientific and experimental approach at the time of the publication of Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels."

Answer 2

The phrase from the passage that best helps the reader to identify the passage as a satire is:

He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers.

Satire

Satire is known to be the use of humour, ridicule, and exaggeration to actually criticize someone or a situation.

Satire is mostly used on the context of politics and other topical issues.

Actually stating that he has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers is really humorous and a ridicule. This is a satire.

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