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mich rhetorical device is used in this excerpt from Mark Twain's "The Invalid's Story"?
I belong in Cleveland, Ohio. One winter's night, two years ago, I reached home just after dark, in a driving snow-storm, and the first thing I heard
when I entered the house was that my dearest boyhood friend and schoolmate, John B. Hackett, had died the day before, and that his last
utterance had been a desire that I would take his remains home to his poor old father and mother in Wisconsin. I was greatly shocked and grieved,
but there was no time to waste in emotions; I must start at once. I took the card, marked "Deacon Levi Hackett, Bethlehem, Wisconsin," and hurried
off through the whistling storm to the railway station. Arrived there I found the long white-pine box which had been described to me; I fastened the
card to it with some tacks, saw it put safely aboard the express car, and then ran into the eating-room to provide myself with a sandwich and some
cigars. When I returned, presently, there was my coffin-box back again, apparently, and a young fellow examining around it, with a card in his
hands, and some tacks and a hammer! I was astonished and puzzled. He began to nail on his card, and I rushed out to the express car, in a good
deal of a state of mind, to ask for an explanation. But no-there was my box, all right, in the express car; it hadn't been disturbed. [The fact is that
without my suspecting it a prodigious mistake had been made. I was carrying off a box of guns which that young fellow had come to the station to
ship to a rifle company in Peoria, Illinois, and he had got my corpse! Just then the conductor sung out "All aboard," and I jumped into the express
car and got a comfortable seat on a bale of buckets.
O A. euphemism
O B.
allusion
OC.
anecdote
DD. apostrophe
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