Access Millions of academic & study documents

Satire

Content type
User Generated
Subject
English
Type
Homework
Showing Page:
1/3

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
2/3

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Showing Page:
3/3

Sign up to view the full document!

lock_open Sign Up
Unformatted Attachment Preview
Provide supporting evidence from the texts to support your responses to these questions. All answers should be in the form of complete sentences. 1. What is the issue Twain is satirizing? Mark Twain is satirizing the advice that is generally given to young people. He takes the average advice that one would expect to be given to children – for instance, “listen to your parents” – but subverts it for a comedic and satiric twist. In line with that same example, Twain tells the audience: “Always obey your parents, when they are present”. 2. What techniques does Twain use to create his satire? Twain relies on various techniques to create his satire, from hyperbole to reversal. Twain drastically exaggerates some of the events that he describes, like the anecdote about the man with the gun who threatened his grandmother. Reversal, or the subversion of an expected ending, can also be ...
Purchase document to see full attachment
User generated content is uploaded by users for the purposes of learning and should be used following Studypool's honor code & terms of service.
Studypool
4.7
Indeed
4.5
Sitejabber
4.4

Similar Documents