I was looking forward to spending time with my cousins last summer.
"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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It would be literally means together/joined/inflamed. It actually means:<span>inflammation of the membrane that covers the eyeball and the eyelid.</span>
