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mrs_skeptik [129]
3 years ago
14

When the place couldn't hold no more, the duke he quit tending door and went around the back way and come on to the stage and st

ood up before the curtain and made a little speech, and praised up this tragedy, and said it was the most thrillingest one that ever was; and so he went on a-bragging about the tragedy, and about Edmund Kean the Elder, which was to play the main principal part in it; and at last when he'd got everybody's expectations up high enough, he rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colors, as splendid as a rainbow. And—but never mind the rest of his outfit; it was just wild, but it was awful funny. Which best describes the source of the humor in this excerpt
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2 answers:
Tresset [83]3 years ago
8 0

Your question does not include the options to choose from, which are the following:

the fact that the place was packed

the duke's speech to the audience

the image of the king performing

the audience's high expectations

Answer:

the image of the king performing

Explanation:

In the except from "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," the author Mark Twain makes reference to the king's bizarre performance. In that respect, after the place is full of men, the king stops selling tickets at the door and goes on stage. There he makes a little speech about his tragedy, and one whe raises the audience's expectations, he rolls up the curtain and shows off naked and painted in different colors, which the public considers hilarious.

Alik [6]3 years ago
5 0

Answer:

C) he image of the king performing

Explanation:

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