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Ahat [919]
3 years ago
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Read the following excerpt from Mark Twain's Life on the Mississippi:

English
2 answers:
podryga [215]3 years ago
8 0

B. It creates humor in that the son of a justice of the peace would find manual labor a more satisfying career.

Rom4ik [11]3 years ago
8 0

Answer: B) It creates humor in that the son of a justice of the peace would find manual labor a more satisfying career.

Explanation: an irony is a state of affairs or an event that seems contrary to what one expects and it often has an amusing result. In the given excerpt from "Life on the Mississippi" by Mark Twain, we can see an example of an irony in the fact that the speaker is the son of a justice of the peace (that was a very respected and important career), but he finds a manual labor (like being a stemboatman or a cabin-boy) more satisfying.

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