Rhetorical Analysis Of To Kill A Mockingbird

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The tone that was created by the author in paragraphs 10-12 was a sardonic tone. The lawyer informed the judge that he was late because he was planting bushels of corn in his field that he had just boiled. He was making fun of the innkeeper because he made the farmer aware, “ if those had hatched, I would have had ten chickens. They, too, would have laid eggs, and so on” (paragraph 3). The judge asks the lawyer if he really thinks that cooked corn will grow. He replied, “if scrambled eggs can turn into chicks, then why not” (paragraph 12). this shows how the author created the sardonic tone by the lawyer mocking the witless innkeeper.

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