... Mark Twain, the distinguished novelist, short story writer, essayist, journalist, and literary critic who ranks among the great figures of American literature. He was born in 1835 in Florida, Missouri and died in 1910 in Redding, Connecticut. Best remembered for his creation of the world of Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn, Mark Twain made use of these characters throughout his career. During his childhood he lived ... center of all actions, forcing us not only to see things through Huck's eyes, but to hear it all expressed through his language. Mark Twain knew how to tell the joke that would m...

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... Twain). He did, though, employ the literary device of using a "simpleton- or buffoonish character in such works as The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Innocents Abroad and Roughing It (Crisler The Comedy of Mark Twain). In terms of specific techniques, Mark Twain proved to be the master of exaggeration, understatement, and anticlimax (or the twisting of a cliché for humorous effect) (Crisler The ... Comedy of Mark Twain). Exaggeration was a way of enlarging a story "beyond the bounds of truth- (Crisler ... The Comedy of Mark Twain). Twain would employ exaggeration not only in his lect...

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