Vocabulary
Plot
Literary Devices
Background
Theme
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Passage from one condition form or stage to another
Transition
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Twain's "The Lowest Animal" thesis is basically a flip of what theory?
Darwinian
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What is the main literary devices that Mark Twain use of the lowest animal?
In the Lowest Animal, Mark Twain used satire.
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what is Mark Twain's real name?
Samuel L. Clemens
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What is Twain’s theory of humanity?
People descended from animals.
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Allegiance
Loyalty
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What did he say about his studies about human?
He studied the habits and dispositions of men to those of other animals.
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How do the words in The Lowest Animal by Mark Twain increase the effect of Twain's satire?
Mark Twain uses sarcasm in the Lowest Animal to increase the effect of satire.
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What did he conclude about cats?
Cats are one of the only higher animals who have loose morals.
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what picture does Twain create in the story?
Mark Twain paints a picture sarcastically of humans being inferior to every animal except for Frenchmen.
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Sordid
Cheap,dirty
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Ma can make other people as his slaves. He can make people out of slavery also. He has the power to control things.
"Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves." Explain this quote.
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When animals fight, they usually protect their own group before they left. Human is not like that.
"The higher animals engage in individuals fights, but never in organized masses." Explain the quote.
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Through his experiment, what did mark twain discovered about man?
Man is the only type of animal that harbors insults and waits for a chance to seek revenge.
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"He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself, and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight." what does Twain want to show?
He shows the hypocrisy that religion can possibly play.
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The difference between man and animal is:"He is avaricious and it is selfless. What does avaricious means ?
Greedy.
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Man knows what he feels is 'wrong' and does it anyway. He is shamed or should feel shame.
Twain's famous line, "Man is the only animal that Blushes, or needs to or has occasion to." means...
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"The grateful (anaconda) immediately crushed (a calf) and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the other (seven) calves and no disposition to harm them."
When the anaconda was full, it did not eat anymore. However, man would kill the second "rat" even though he's satisfied. Man is greedy!
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He wants to reverse the Darwinism.
Twain calls for a renouncement of his allegiance to Darwin's theory. What does this mean?
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what are the three themes use throughout the essay?
1. Religion (differences between higher and lower animals) 2. Government (different race or countries) 3. The ability of humans to encompass morality (characteristics)
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Keep away from that man, he is unfriendly and bad.
Atrocious
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"Then, I stayed away for two whole days. When I came back to note results, the cage of Higher Animal was all right, but in the other was but a chaos of gory odds and ends of turbans and fezzes and plaids and bone and flesh - not a specimen left alive." Explain this quote.
Animals can be in peace with each other. However, human cannot. They are different from religions, languages, characteristics. They are greedy and cruel.
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What does irony do in the 'The Lowest Animal'?
The target of the satire is to illustrate to the reader the negative traits that we as humans possess. The main techniques used are fake experiments conducted by Twain as well as exaggeration.
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Why do Mark Twain say about Man's independent?
Man is the only animal who sets himself apart in his own country and is patriotic. This patriotism causes man to have armies and try at every turn to grab a slice of other men's countries.
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Twain says "The Roman Catholics, by previous concert, sprang a surprise upon the unprepared and unsuspecting Protestants, and butchered them by thousands-both sexes and all ages." He continues, "At Rome the Pope and the Church gave public thanks to God when the happy news came." what he try to display?
He tries to display the brutality religion represented at that certain point in history.
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