What main technique for achieving humor does Mark Twain use in this sentence from Life on the Mississippi? "I was quaking from head to foot, and I could have hung my hat on my eyes, they stuck out so far."

A)Understatement

B)Hyperbole

C)Satire

D)Personification

Hyperbole (B)

Explanation:

A hyperbole is a literary device in which a statement is over exaggerated. For example, my backpack weighs a ton is a hyperbole because the person's backpack likely does not literally weigh a ton. So, when Mark Twain says "I could have hung my hat on my eyes they stuck out so far" it is an over-exaggeration, therefore a hyperbole. Hope this helps :)

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anyone who was dealing with communism in soviet union in his time had an ideal picture of equality, freedom, the struggle of the working class for a better future, the success of the aristocracy's overthrow and the emancipation of subjugation.   however, anyone who would go to soviet union to see the functioning of the communist system, would be convinced that it was about sad people, about everyday bad life, about the brutal attitude of communist leaders, about ill obsession to completely exterminate every thought on aristocracy. thus, orwell wanted to show all the absurdity, the brutality of the system, the unbearable rule of suspicious morality, the ignorant people who try to play professionally.

the answers are: b. and e.