Question

Select the correct text in the passage.

In this excerpt from Mark Twain's "How to Tell a Story," which sentence is mostly clearly the thesis statement?

Answer 1

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Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. 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.

Explanation:

Satire is the use of humor or irony in one's figure of speech in order to criticize the characteristics or to ridicule or expose a person's actions especially in political scenes. Mark Twain, in his "The The £1,000,000 Bank-Note" tells of an occurrence-

Now, something had been happening there a little before, which I did not know anything about until a good many days afterwards, but I will tell you about it now. 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 is a satire in that it criticizes and ridicules the efforts of the two brothers in settling their "hot argument' by betting, which according to him, "is the English way of settling everything".

Answer 2

I only claim to know how a story ought to be told, for I have been almost daily in the company of the most expert story-tellers for many years.

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