Student Name: *Student ID: *Read the passage very carefully, thinking about Mark Twain’s use of satire and irony. Where are these devices most evident? After reading the passage, respond to the eight multiple choice questions and click on “submit” at the end of the quiz. In a separate assignment on Blackboard, you will find quotations on lying. Please follow the instructions at the top of the page. 1.The first paragraph leads the reader to believe that the speakerhas no children of his ownintends to teach from his own experiencewill be overly didactic in his adviceis going to give a satirical speechwill offer good advice to young people2.The second paragraph serves toestablish that the speaker is mocking the precepts of societyshow that the speaker believes children should obey their parentssuggest that the speaker believes youth are not as smart as adultsundermine the serious ideas expressed in the rest of the passageextend the tone that is established in the first paragraph3.“Such things” in lines 18-19 refers to“confess yourself in the wrong” (line 16)“say you didn’t mean to” (line 17)“violence” (line 18)“charity and kindliness” (line 18)“dynamite” (line 19)4.In the second through fifth paragraphs (lines 8-54), it is evident that the speaker believesviolence is often the only optionadults usually know better than youthstarting the day very early is wise and respectablesociety has many overrated standardsconforming to social norms is a citizen’s duty5.Lines 38-48 contrast with the rest of the paragraph in thatthe speaker’s rhetoric is increasingly hyperbolicthe speaker is stating what he truly believes without sarcasmthe speaker emphasizes the importance of the behavior of individualsthe speaker uses a more didactic tone to emphasize the seriousness of lyingthe speaker begins to exaggerate the usefulness of a good lie6.In the paragraph about guns, the speakeris trying to safeguard the elderly from gun violenceshares a story from his own childhoodis critical of giving children access to firearmsmocks society’s emphasis on the danger of unloaded gunssuggests youth can learn from the Battle of Waterloo7.From the last paragraph and the passage as a whole, the reader can infer that the speakerhopes his audience will follow society’s preceptswould be applauded by all the parents in the audiencewill be widely sought out by school officials to speak at graduation ceremoniesdesires his audience to make their own value judgmentsis proud of his support of the moral values of society and hopes the audience will applaud him8.The speech isan example of Twain’s bitter resentment of any kind of authoritya series of allusions to themes found in many of Twain’s worksa pedantic attempt to instill morals in the audience by using sarcasma humorous parody of speeches made to graduating classesa tirade in which there is a notable lack of figurative language
