"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?
Jim and Huck still genuinely believe that the“rapscallions” are royalty.
Jim is revealing to Huck that most people are not what they seem.
Jim tells Huck that he knew the truth about the kings before everyone else.
Jim and Huck are basing their opinion of all royalty on fake kings.

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

Explanation:

The use of satire highlights how various figurative elements such as irony, exaggeration are used to demean or expose the actions or misdeeds of people. In the excerpt above, Jim and Huck made ridiculing remarks of royalty by tagging the rapscallion(rascals). Jim and Huck feels thebroyalty lines are of the same breed and makes a generalization of tagging all royalty as fake kings.

the servant does not kill the child oedipus as he was ordered to do because "he pitied the child" based on the oedipus rex story. the servant was ordered to kill the child because of the prophecy that predicted king laius' death. the king already had attempted to hurt oedipus by piercing oedipus's ankle. however, the servant did not finish the job and he rather saved the baby oedipus.

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