Read the following excerpt from life on the mississippi by mark twain.

no girl could withstand his charms. he "cut out" every boy in the village. when his boat blew up at last, it diffused a tranquil contentment among us such as we had not known for months. but when he came home the next week, alive, renowned, and appeared in church all battered up and bandaged, a shining hero, stared at and wondered over by everybody, it seemed to us that the partiality of providence for an undeserving reptile had reached a point where it was open to criticism.

how does twain's use of understatement serve his purpose? be sure to use specific details from the text to support your answer.

At the beginning of canto ii, dante invokes the muses. what does dante promise he will do in return? tell of their greatness stop fighting and rest a while act as if he were the apostle paul be courageous in his fight to return to earth

Read the following passage "you're not here to read books, you're here to learn! " the childwrangler's voice screeched as we kept our picks moving rhythmically against the school walls. we had all heard about a time, back in the dark ages, when children read books at school. they say school was even a building above ground. but that was obviously dangerous. how could society thrive if all the children sat around reading all day? when would they have time to learn about veins of coal, processing fuel, and all that stuff? school was important.what two central ideas in this story are most closely related? a. the importance of literature and the dangers of miningb. humankind's basic survival needs and independence c. the nature of learning and societal dysfunctiond. the powers of rumors and abuse of authority

In descriptive writing, the conclusion should introduce a new idea return the discussion to the general level use a quotation explain why the essay was effective