It interprets the main idea
Answer:
Part A:
Face it: modern-day life can be about as exciting as watching grass grow.
Part B:
The two objects being compared in the paragraph are modern-day life and the process of watching grass grow. The meaning of this simile is how modern-day life can be incredibly boring and dragged out, similar to sitting and watching grass grow or paint dry. People watch Reality TV in order to rid oneself of this boredom and see how ordinary people, much like them, passes their time throughout the day.
In mark twains piece of literature, the invalids story, irony is repeatedly used
- they don't want to get sick from the smell, but they eventually get sick from the coldness
- dramatic irony; the responder knows that a bag of cheese was left on the box, but the two men in the train don't know this
