Question

It was a lovely dinner-party of fourteen. The Duke and Duchess of Shoreditch, and their daughter the Lady Anne-Grace-Eleanor-Celeste-and-so-forth-and-so-forth-de-Bohun, the Earl and Countess of Newgate, Viscount Cheapside, Lord and Lady Blatherskite, some untitled people of both sexes, the minister and his wife and daughter, and his daughter's visiting friend, an English girl of twenty-two, named Portia Langham, whom I fell in love with in two minutes, and she with me—I could see it without glasses. There was still another guest, an American—but I am a little ahead of my story.
A.
the long list of names required to address certain nobles
B.
the English custom of holding frequent balls and dinner parties
C.
the lack of importance given to Americans by the English
D.
the eccentric attitudes of the British upper class

Answer 1

Mark Twain satirizes the long list of names to refer to some noble people.

Satire is a common literary element in Twain's texts. Twain often uses satire as a way to ridicule the attitudes and behavior of some people, especially wealthy or noble people.

In the excerpt presented, Twain is satirizing the long names of noble people. This is seen in the following excerpt:

• Their daughter the Lady Anne-Grace-Eleanor-Celeste-and-so-forth-and-so-forth-de-Bohun

In this excerpt, he jokes about the long name of one of the guests and shows how ridicule is to have these very long names.

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What does Mark Twain satirize in this excerpt from "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note"?

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