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DIRECTIONS: Identify the techniques: hyperbole, understatement, and satire that Twain uses
create humor in his writing. Record these elements and examples in the chart.
"A Toast to the Oldest Inhabitant: The Weather of New England"
Comic Technique
satire
Example in Selection
On p. 522 Every year they kill a lot of poets for writing about
"Beautiful Spring."
satire
understatement
satire