(1)Go to bed early, get up early -- this is wise. (2)Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with one thing, others with another. (3)But a lark is really the best thing to get up with. (4)It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time -- it’s no trick at all. Which two sentences provide a humorous contrast in Twain’s advice that helps develop the satire? 1 and 2 2 and 3 2 and 4 1 and 4

(2).  Some authorities say get up with the sun; some say get up with one thing, others with another.

(4).   It gives you a splendid reputation with everybody to know that you get up with the lark; and if you get the right kind of lark, and work at him right, you can easily train him to get up at half past nine, every time -- it’s no trick at all.

Option  2 and 4

Explanation:

The above option 2 and 4 are those sentences which provides a humourous contrast in Twain's satire regarding to sleeping and waking up as well as a lark.

the correct answers are:

c. “never in the history of his people had a man married a woman who spoke a different tongue.”

d. “‘it has never been heard,’ was the verdict of an old man speaking a few weeks later.”

e. “this man had come with others to commiserate with okeke.”