1. What is the issue Twain is satirizing? The issue Mark Twain is satirizing is the advice adults give to children. His believes the advice given to teenagers and small kids are intended to make them all follow to the same idea
"I hope you will treasure up the instructions which I have given you, and make them a guide to your feet and a light to your understanding."
2. What techniques does Twain use to create his satire? Mark Twain uses several different techniques to create his satire. Twain uses parody, wit, hyperbole, and irony.
"You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught."
3. What is the issue McCullough is satirizing? The issue McCullough is satirizing kids to push themselves and to exceed.
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Go to Paris to be in Paris, not to cross it off your list and congratulate yourself for being worldly. "
4. What techniques does McCullough use to create his satire? The techniques McCullough uses to create satire by using hyperbole, understatement, and caricature.
"Epictetus tells me I have the spark of Zeus!” And I don’t disagree. So that makes 6.8 billion examples of perfection, 6.8 billion sparks of Zeus. You see, if everyone is special, then no one is."
5. How effectively do the techniques used communicate Twain’s position? The techniques used to communicate Twain’s position are effective because makes you believe that he’s going to offer advice, but turns it into a joke.
"First, then. I will say to you my young friends--and I say it beseechingly, urgingly--"
6. How effectively do the techniques used communicate McCullough’s position? The techniques used to communicate McCullough’s position are also effective because McCullough wants the audience to feel content with themselves and be able to accomplish things on their own without anyone. He believes it’s okay to feel like this without feeling a showoff. He exaggerates that you don’t have anything to