Question

To interrupt another, even in common Conversation, is reckon’d highly indecent. How different this is, from the Conduct of a polite British House of Commons where scarce every person without some confusion, that makes the Speaker hoarse in calling to Order and how different from the Mode of Conversation in many polite Companies of Europe, where if you do not deliver your Sentence with great Rapidity, you are cut off in the middle of it by the Impatient Loquacity of those you converse with, and never suffer’d to finish it—
Why does Franklin use satire and sarcasm in this excerpt?

to illustrate the carefree nature of the Puritans
to mock the Puritan communities for their customs
to display to the Native Americans why their customs were wrong
to show that Native Americans at times are more civil than Puritans

Answer 1

Franklin use satire and sarcasm in this excerpt to show that  Native Americans at times are more civil than Puritans. Thus, the correct answer is D.

What is sarcasm?

Sarcasm is referred as situation of where the said word does not display the same meaning which is used earlier. It shows the humorous meaning of any word used in insulting manner.

In this excerpt it is given that, the Franklin describes the nature of people in civilised manner. He claims that although ordinary councils in the British House in Europe are more familiar to being faced with continuous discourse,  in which Indians exhibit more respectful behaviour.

Therefore, option D Native Americans at times are more civil than Puritans is the appropriate answer.

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