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* [[Sarcastic Title]]: One of the earliest examples.
* [[Stealth Parody]]: So intricate that it wasn't recognized as such for some time. It helped that the British reading public was so convinced of its correctness in disdaining the Irish that they couldn't see that Swift was attacking that very conviction.
* [[Wham! Line]]: You have to start reading from the beginning to get the full impact of the line quoted in the introduction.
* [[Writers Cannot Do Math]]: Swift says that one fourth of the children saved for breeding should be male, and that "one male will be sufficient to serve four females." If one fourth of the children are male, each would have to "serve" three, not four females.
*** [[Fridge Brilliance|It was probably a subtle hint that the narrator didn't know what he was talking about]]
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