Read the lines from a student's book report. This is a historical novel set in the early 1900s. Many lifestyle details are included in the book. Readers learn about transportation, clothing, and entertainment of the era.

Which lines best show that the writer has adjusted the writing for a younger audience?

This is an important work of fiction that explores life at the turn of the century. Readers will enjoy reminiscing about the fads and fashions of yesteryear.
Sociologists say that although life was physically more demanding years ago, people who lived back then were generally less stressed than people today.
Historical fiction gives readers a look back in time. It is important to note patterns and trends that affect society today.
This book is about life in the old days. Readers can learn about horse and buggy rides, long woolen underwear, and old-fashioned games.

Hich line in this excerpt from jonathan swift's "a modest proposal" uses the rhetorical device of irony? and secondly, (there being a round million of creatures in humane figure throughout this kingdom, whose whole subsistence put into a common stock, would leave them in debt two million of pounds sterling), adding those who are beggars by profession, to the bulk of farmers, cottagers and labourers, with their wives and children, who are beggars in effect; i desire those politicians who dislike my overture, and may perhaps be so bold to attempt an answer, that they will first ask the parents of these mortals, whether they would not at this day think it a great happiness to have been sold for food at a year old, in the manner i prescribe, and thereby have avoided such a perpetual scene of misfortunes, as (they have since gone through, by the oppression of landlords, the impossibility of paying rent without money or trade, the want of common sustenance, with neither house nor cloaths to cover them from the inclemencies of the weather,) and the most inevitable prospect of intailing the like, or greater miseries, upon their breed for ever. i profess, in the sincerity of my heart, that( i have not the least personal interest in endeavouring to promote this necessary work, having no other motive than the publick good of my country,) by advancing our trade, providing for infants, relieving the poor, and giving some pleasure to the rich.( i have no children, by which i can propose to get a single penny; the youngest being nine years old, and my wife past child-bearing. reset next)