Question

Sarcasm is language that states the opposite of

what it means to deliberately criticize or mock
someone or something.
What is an example of Twain's use of sarcasm in
"War Prayer"?
praying to God for victory instead of praying
for peace
asking that God protect a country's soldiers
from harm
asking God, "in the spirit of love," to bring
destruction
"O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols
of our hearts, go forth to battle - be Thou near
them! With them - in spirit - we also go forth
from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides
to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to
tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our
shells: help us to cover their smiling fields
with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help
us to drown the thunder of the guns with the
shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain:
help us to lay waste their humble homes with
a hurricane of fire: help us to wring the hearts
of their unoffending widows with unavailing
grief; help us to turn them out roofless with
-
DONE

Answer 1

C

Step-by-step explanation:

asking God, "in the spirit of love," to bring destruction

Answer 2

asking God, "in the spirit of love," to bring destruction

Step-by-step explanation:

Mark Twain's "The War-Prayer" is a prose poem that was written in a sarcastic way.This was a response to the Spanish-American war, as well as the Philippine-American war that was happening.

His poem allowed him to speak aloud about how people would have prayed to become victorious during the war. This was something that people probably wanted to pray for, but have not said so themselves. The sarcasm in his language is that he also directed the prayer "in the spirit of love" to God whom people were asking for victory over the enemy. It is sarcastic because love should not be about war. It should be about having peaceful relationship with people. It becomes an irony when people ask God to pray for victory by killing other people in a battle.

Thus, this explains the answer.