Question

Which sentence uses humor in this excerpt from Charles Farrar Browne's "Interview with President Lincoln"?

1."Mr. Linkin, who do you spect I air?" sed I.


2."A orfice-seeker, to be sure," sed he.


3. "Wall, sir," sed I, "you's never more mistaken in your life.

5.I'm the father of Twins, and they look like me--BOTH OF THEM.

6.Repose in Abraham's Buzzum!" sed one of the orfice seekers
(there are 3 qs?

Answer 1

Which sentence uses humor in this excerpt from Charles Farrar Browne's "Interview with President Lincoln"?

The correct answer is 5.  

I'm the father of Twins, and they look like me--BOTH OF THEM

Twins are two people who are born in the same birth it is obvious that both of them are going to look like him.

2. What does the narrator allude to at the end of this sentence form Mark Twain’s “The 1,000,000 Bank-Note”?  

“So I loved her all the more, seeing she could be so cheerful when there wasn’t anything to be cheerful about, for I might soon need that kind of wife, you know, the way things looked.”  

The correct answer is B. the possibility of requiring a wife who could match Adam’s social standards. In the excerpt is mentioned that she could be happy in moments in which there was not anything to be happy about, this means she can put up with his situations. This means, she could be happy with what he was rather than with what he had. And all these reasons made him see her as the answer for putting up with his misfortune of debts and credits, she made him see he could be happy despite his bad days.

Answer 2

Answer:

"Im a father of twins, and they both look like me-- BOTH OF THEM."

Explanation:

Just took a test with this question and this was the correct answer :)