"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."
- This sentence in this excerpt from Mark Twain's "The €1,000,000 Bank-Note" is an example of satire.
- Satire is a literary device used in exposing and criticising people's foolishness or vices through humour, exaggeration, irony, or ridicule, especially in relation to current politics and other controversial topics.
- Here, the author describes how not just trivial but even important issues related to Bank of England are decided by "a bet". So, the author cricisizes the English way of settling important issues without great consideration.
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Cassius killed himself but brutus was responsible
The direct object always answers the question 'what?'
She heard what?
The answer is 'it'.which is the direct object.
"I think" should be taken out
