Part A: Twain’s Family Tree
Use all the skills you have learned throughout this course to complete a close reading of the description you’ve chosen. Use context clues to make sense of things that are not clear at first. Pay attention to Twain’s tone and the humor devices he uses.

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Part A: Twain’s Family Tree
Use all the skills you have learned throughout this course to complete a close reading of the description you’ve chosen. Use context clues to make sense of things that are not clear at first. Pay attention to Twain’s tone and the humor devices he uses.

anonymous · Answer

Which of Twain’s ancestors did you select?


What is the ACTUAL story of that man’s life? Provide supporting evidence from the text.
What techniques does Twain use to create satire in the description you selected? Provide supporting evidence from the text.
Part B: Create Your Own Satire
For this part of the assignment, you will appropriate Twain’s technique and write a burlesque of an event in your life or in the life of a celebrity. Remember, a burlesque plays on contradiction between a subject and the way it is treated. Twain used humor to describe serious, sometimes awful, events, but you can turn it around and present something fun or happy in a very serious way – the choice is yours.
Requirements:
Incorporate at least two humor devices
Write a minimum of five sentences
 
someone please help. I dont know anything about this subject.

anonymous · Answer

No one can help you with this because the lesson pages contain the short passage you need to answer these questions.