- Which sentences in this excerpt from Mark Twain's Adventures of Huckleberry Finn use hyperbole?
- He listened some more; then he come tiptoeing down and stood right between us; we could a touched him, nearly.
- Well, likely it was minutes and minutes that there warn't a sound, and we all there so close together.
- There was a place on my ankle that got to itching, but I dasn't scratch it; and then my ear begun to itch; and next my back, right between my shoulders.
- Seemed like I'd die if I couldn't scratch.
- Well, I've noticed that thing plenty times since. If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy—if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places.
- Pretty soon Jim says: "Say, who is you? Whar is you? Dog my cats ef I didn' hear sumf'n. Well, I know what I's gwyne to do: I's gwyne to set down here and listen tell I hears it agin."
Humor in American Realism Assignment - Read Mark Twain’s “The £1,000,000 Bank-Note.”
- Complete slides 17 and 18 on Unit 3 Humor in American Realism and submit answers.
Humor in American Realism - Analysis of "The £1,000,000 Bank-Note“
- “The first thing I noticed, then, was the landlord. His eye was on the note, and he was petrified.He was worshiping, with all his body and soul, but he looked as if he couldn't stir hand or foot. ”
- Henry uses this discovery to his advantage and lives like a king for the month he has the money.Twain is making a statement about the worship of money throughout all classes of British society.Everyone—from the landlord of the hotel to the aristocrats that Henry dines with—is in awe of his million-pound bank note and, as a result, treats him as an honored member of society.
- Twain uses hyperbole throughout the story. For example, instead of simply writing that Henry wanted to eat a pear that a child dropped in the gutter, Twain writes that his "whole being begged for it."
- He gently satirizes the emotions of youth through Henry's character. Although Henry has only just met Portia Langham at a dinner party, he falls in love immediately. To the reader, he introduces her as "an English girl of twenty-two, named Portia Langham, whom I fell in love with in two minutes." Everything that Henry feels is a hyperbole—his hunger, his love, his excitement—which reflects the inexperience and immaturity of many young adults.
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