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Roughing It Review

Roughing It Review. Questions. Twain’s real name? Lived where? Wrote for a local what?. Array Conspicuous Contrive Legitimate Livelihood. Questions. Rigid Sensational Tolerable Yield. What’s exaggerate mean? Understatement means what?. Questions.

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Roughing It Review

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  1. Roughing It Review

  2. Questions Twain’s real name? Lived where? Wrote for a local what? Array Conspicuous Contrive Legitimate Livelihood

  3. Questions Rigid Sensational Tolerable Yield What’s exaggerate mean? Understatement means what?

  4. Questions What was Twain’s biggest fault as a printer? What happened with the dirt when he threw it? What did Twain think would happen if he didn’t take newspaper job? Why did Twain falsely report some travelers died? What’s the important question Twain needed to ask himself? What did the editor tell Twain to do so people had confidence in his story?

  5. Questions • Why was Twain nervous about taking the newspaper job? How does Twain use exaggeration to create a humorous voice in this sentence? "With encouragement like that, I felt like I could take my pen and murder all the immigrants on the plains if need be, and the interests of the paper demanded it".

  6. Review What contributes to the humorous voice in this sentence? "I inwardly resolved that I would starve before I would make a target of myself and shoot rubbish at it with a long-handled shovel". What contributes to the humorous voice in the sentence that describes Twain's appearance, "coatless, slouch hat, blue woolen shirt, pantaloons, stuffed into boot tops, whiskered half down to the waist, and the universal navy revolver slung to my belt".

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