D) to illustrate trends and patterns in data
Answer:
There is no passage to link the answer to, but definitions of asnwers can help
Explanation:
Here are definitions of the answers, which can help with the answer:
A) Humorous means funny or amusing.
B) Conversational is something related to conversation, which can be chatty, friendly, colloquial.
C) Irony is the expression of someone's meaning by using language that represents the opposite, typically for humorous effect.
D) Satire is the use of humour, irony, or exaggeration, criticize people's stupidity or vices, particularly in the context of important and general issues.
E) Condensending means having or showing a patronizing attitude towards someone.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) uses a fine humor style which is easily detected in extracts like:
<em>"Thish-yer Smiley had a mare; the boys called the fifteen minute nag(...) for all she was so slow and always had the asthma, or the distemper or the consumption, or something of that kind."</em>
<em>"...And he had a little small bull pup, that to look at him you´d think he warn´t worth a cent(...) his underjaw´d begin to stick out like the fo´castle of a steamboat..."</em>
<em>"...He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal´klated to edercate him(...) and you bet you he did learn him, too.</em>
Twain is satirizing several aspects of American life, but specially the country "punks" who tend to speak at length about subjects that are close to them but are really unimportant an nonsensical.
It is significant because a prominent leader was suggesting that the unequal treatment of African Americans was in direct opposition to the principles of the Declaration of Independence.
Answer:
but we will still write notes to each other.
