Mark Twain : Satire and Personal Feelings November 30, 1835 was the day that Florida, Missouri had its biggest resident born. Although he would only stay there for four, years this little town would be in the record books forever. His father moved the family to Hannible, Missouri in the autumn of 1839(Miller x ). His experiences in this small town would help him to write some of his greatest novels. Twain's best work was often characterized by broad, …showed first 75 words of 929 total…

…showed last 75 words of 929 total…head what Tom would have done in that situation(Cantwell 127). Mark Twain's use of both "humor" and "satire" exhausted all the major techniques. Even though he exhausted all the major techniques, three of the techniques appeared prominently over the rest of them: exaggeration, understatement, and anticlimax(net). This use of humor and satire is, as agreed by most of the experts in that field, what made Twain one of the greatest writers of American literature.