Read the excerpt from chapter 23 of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. "Don't it s'prise you de way dem kings carries on, Huck?" "No," I says, "it don't." "Why don't it, Huck?" "Well, it don't, because it's in the breed. I reckon they're all alike," "But, Huck, dese kings o' ourn is reglar rapscallions; dat's jist what dey is; dey's reglar rapscallions." "Well, that's what I'm a-saying; all kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out." Which best describes the satirical element of this excerpt?

After reading the excerpt from "Huckleberry Finn," we can say the option which best describes the satirical element in it is:

D. Jim and Huck are basing their opinion of all royalty on fake kings.

The answer choices for this question can be found online. They are the following:

Which best describes the satirical element of this excerpt?

A. Jim and Huck still genuinely believe that the"rapscallions" are royalty.

B. Jim is revealing to Huck that most people are not what they seem.

C. Jim tells Huck that he knew the truth about the kings before everyone else.

D. Jim and Huck are basing their opinion of all royalty on fake kings.

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The best description of the satirical element of this excerpt is that Jim and Huck are basing their opinion of all royalty on fake kings.

Going through the excerpt we can see that they both refer to all kings using the word rapscallions.

The word rapscallions means something mischievous and unreal. The words that Jim made at the end of the excerpt is that all Kings are rapscallions as far as he was concerned.

This shows that they did not have any appreciation for kings. They saw all of them in the same light.

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