Question

In this activity, you’ll analyze Mark Twain’s essay “TAMING THE BICYCLE.” You’ll determine the author’s main purpose and other purposes for writing the text, supporting your answers with evidence from the text. Then you’ll reflect on your choice of purposes. Finally, you will analyze the author’s point of view from the purposes you identified.

Answer 1

Answer:

As anyone who has learned or tried to learn a second language knows, it is difficult and can be very frustrating at times. Twain explores this in the ingenious essay "The Awful German Language", which was first published in Appendix D in A Tramp Abroad. He describes language as "perplexed" with its ten different parts of speech, one sound that is, several different things, super long words, which he believes have his own "perspective" on it, and so on. After analyzing the language, Twain goes on to describe how he would 'reshape' it. In regard to these long compound words, for example, he 'would require the speaker to divide them into sections, with breaks for refreshments

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