Mark Twain gives a speech about the youth and he gave words of guidance to them, in an article titled “Advice to Youth”. Throughout the text it is noted that Twain uses many forms of rhetorical strategies to get his Satire across to the reader's. The author uses examples and audience play a big role towards Twain's main purpose. The author's main purpose is that even though we remind kids to respect elders, to get up early, and to not lie, the credibility of the speaker comes into play. Even though adults tell us these things, we don’t listen, and in reality neither do they. Mark Twain uses satire to get his main objective across, that being that adults give advice they don’t even listen to. In the speech he exemplifies why lying is bad.