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julsineya [31]
3 years ago
8

Which sentence in this excerpt from Mark Twain's "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" is an example of satire?

English
2 answers:
IgorLugansk [536]3 years ago
8 0
I would say that the example of satire among these options is d. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.
Twain is criticizing and mocking the English for settling everything in such a trivial manner as betting. 
Tpy6a [65]3 years ago
3 0

Answer: d. Those two old brothers had been having a pretty hot argument a couple of days before, and had ended by agreeing to decide it by a bet, which is the English way of settling everything.

Explanation: A satire is the use of irony, humor or exaggeration in order to make a critique about something fool or bad of an individual or a society. In the given excerpt from Mark Twain's "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" we can see an example of satire, when the speakers says that the brothers had had a fight or an argument, but they had made a bet to reach an agreement, so, in this way he criticizes this "English" way to settle everything.

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