Slaughterhouse Five Analysis/Reflection Having finished Slaughterhouse Five, it is now time to analyze and reflect on the work.
Complete the following tasks:
1. Select TWO (2) passages from the novel (each no more than two pages long). Include chapters
and page numbers (where possible).
2. Summarize both passages (around five sentences each).
3. Answer the following questions in complete sentences and well-structured paragraphs:
• Why did you choose these passages (for example, emotional response, appreciation for
aesthetics, etc.)?
How are these passages important to Billy's character development?
How do these passages reflect upon key points about this novel (for example,
timelessness, grief, trauma, humour, alienation, etc.)?
What literary devices is Vonnegut using to enhance the passages you have chosen?
What strategies is Vonnegut using to appeal to his audience (Ethos, Logos, Pathos)?
4. In a short paragraph (around seven sentences), explain what you think people should take away
from Slaughterhouse Five (what it teaches people or warns them against). You should include
evidence from the text to back up your opinion.
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You may use informal writing where necessary, but otherwise, you must follow the rules of formal
writing. You must include direct citations or paraphrasing to back up your analysis, where necessary, in
MLA format.

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)