7. Evaluate Reread lines 120-138. Do you think the message in this passage is serious or humorous, or some combination of both? Use examples from the text to explain your answer.
Story is the "Adventures of Tom Sawyer"
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Match each literary device to its definition. pun the use of humor and exaggeration to mock or criticize people's impractical thoughts and practices irony the use of words in a way that conveys the opposite of what they mean paradox the use of a word with more than one possible meaning with the intention of creating humor satire ideas or concepts that seem absurd or contradictory but are nevertheless true arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth arrowboth

According to the police officer, the car accident could not have been avoided.

Which type of rhetoric is used in this sentence? while i'm certain some will disagree with what i'm about to say, i respectfully ask them to listen to the evidence i will provide to support my claim