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implies exaggeratedly that it is as if some genius of great power, who didn39。 t like to do the right things and who was an inflexible enemy of man, em ployed all the cleverness and skill of hell to build these ugly houses。 and again in para. 2 there is the sentence What al lude to in sight, which suggests an exaggeration that is hard to believe. Not every house could have been that ugly. Lesson 6 Mark Twain Mirror of AmericaMetaphor:Mark Twain Mirror of Americasaw clearly ahead a black wall of night...main artery of transportation in the young nation39。s heartAll would resurface in his books...that he soaked up...When railroads began drying up the demand......the epidemic of gold and silver fever...Twain began digging his way to regional fame...Mark Twain honed and experimented with his new writing muscles...Simile:Most American remember M. T. as the father of......a memory that seemed phonographicHyperbole:...cruise through eternal boyhood and ...endless summer of freedom...The cast of characters... a cosmos.America laughed with him.Personification:...to literature39。s enduring gratitude...the grave world smiles as usual...Bitterness fed on the man...America laughed with him.Personal tragedy haunted his entire life.Antithesis:...between what people claim to be and what they really are.....took unholy verbal shots at the Holy Land......a world which will lament them a day and forget them foreverEuphemism:… a motley band of Confederate guerrillas who diligently avoided contact with the enemy....men39。s final release from earthly struggleAlliteration