Horses live to be twenty years old.
(false, horses live 25-32 statistically.)
Answer:
the passengers and Twain perceive the river in very different ways.
Explanation:
Right after it, Twain continues: <em>"Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition."</em>
He sees the river in a different way and much is to be told from what the river shows, it seems, but passengers are not able to see what he sees because they do not share the same knowledge.
This is just my guess, but maybe it's because the dictators use their words to climb up and become one?
For example, Adolf Hitler was in the congress for a long time before he became a dictator. He talked and gave lots of speeches that the Germans (At the time) thought were good, so they slowly trusted him and unfortunately let him become dictator.
I wouldn't use this as an answer to a quiz or test, though.
"When doing a persuasive speech you have to keep in mind that you want to convince the audience to believe in what you are telling them, or support your claim, in this case you are already biased by this desire, the key to persuade people is to know how to convince them, and you can do this easiyl with strong writting and a powerful delivery."
