Augustus Twain was a highwayman who rob and kill people "used to take his old sabre and sharpen it up, and get in a convenient place on a dark night, and stick it through people as they went by" One day the authorities captured and beheaded him and, his head was placed on a pike on Temple bar. "he was found stripping one of these parties, the authorities removed one end of him, and put it up on a nice high place on Temple Bar"
3.What techniques does Twain use to create satire in the description you selected? Provide supporting evidence from the text.
In the autobiography of Augustus, Twain includes a variety of humor devices like :verbal irony,and wit. "take his old sabre and sharpen it up, and get in a convenient place on a dark night,
3.What techniques does Twain use to create satire in the description you selected? Provide supporting evidence from the text.
In the autobiography of Augustus, Twain includes a variety of humor devices like :verbal irony,and wit. "take his old sabre and sharpen it up, and get in a convenient place on a dark night,