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,we’ll show them a few tricks,”Darrow had whispered throwing a reassuring arm round my shoulder as we were waiting for the court to open.—transferred epithet4 After a while,it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until we are marching backwards to the glorious age of the sixteenth century when bigots lighted faggots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and Culture to the human mind.—irony5 One shop announced:DARWIN IS RIGHT—INSIDE.—pun6 Dudley Field Malone called my conviction a “victorious defeat.”—oxymoron7 The oratorical storm that Clarence Darrow and Dudley Field Malone blew up in the little cout in Dayton swept like a fresh wind through the schools and legislative of fices of the United States,bringing in its wake a new climate of intellectual and academic freedom that has growen with the passing years.—extended metaphorLesson 61Most Americans remember Mark Twain as the father of Huck Finn’s idyllic cruise through eternal boyhood and Tom Sawyer’s endless summer of freedom and adventure.—metaphor ,hyperbole,parallelism2I found another Twain as well—one who grew cynical,bitter,saddened by the profound personal tragedies life dealt him,a man who became obsessed with the frailties of the human race,who waw clearly ahead a black wall of night.—metaphor3The cast of characters set before him in his new profession was rich and varied—a cosmos.—alliteration metaphor4He went west by stagecoach and succumbed to the epidemic of gold and silver fever in Nevada’s Washoe 5For eight months he flirted with the colossal wealth available to the lucky and the persistent,and was rebuffed.—extended metaphor6“It was a splendid population—for all the slow,sleepy,sluggishbrained sloths stayed at home..—alliteration7The grave world smiles as usual,and says…persification8..one could set a trap anywhere and catch a dozen abler men in a night”Csually he debunked revered artists and art treasures,and took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land.—