Choose a problem you want to address. This should be something you have some direct or indirect experience with. Do the kids at your school leave the classroom and grounds a mess with trash? Is there a problem with bullying? Or perhaps you want to go bigger and look at a problem in your city or town. Are teens getting in trouble because there are no fun yet safe activities for them to do? The closer you are to the problem the better you writing likely will be. Create a satirical solution. Remember, the more outlandish your solution is, the more you draw attention to the problem. (Use that hyperbole!!) Your satirical solution should actually fix the problem even if it is completely impossible (eating children means you don't have to feed them and fixes the problem of overpopulation and starvation... just saying). To make sure you are clear and get credit for your work bold the satirical solution the first time you introduce it in your writing. You do not need to put the explanation or any other mention of the satirical solution in bold—just the first mention. Satire and sarcasm aren't easy for everyone. By underlining your solution you give a visual cue to your teacher when they are grading your work. This way you can get (at least some) credit even if you aren't confident in your satirical voice just yet. Also include additional advantages to the solution. Think back to when Swift numbers six different additional advantages to eating children then lists several more in an additional paragraph. You only need one additional advantage, but can you come up with more? Include all four satirical devices—hyperbole, reversal, irony, and incongruity—in your work. To make sure you get credit for each put the term in parenthesis after the sentence in which it is used. For example: "Everyone should be bullied at least once to make sure they grow strong" (irony). Doing this will make sure you teacher knows you attempted to use the device. If a device is difficult for you and you aren't sure if your example counts, you may wan