He was flirting with a white woman before he was murdered
The answer would be the message that is discussed through out the text because it is the big idea or the main purpose of the text.
B) the message that is discussed through out the text
C. Time
When the speaker is saying “miles to go before I sleep”, sleep can refer to death. By saying that they have miles to go before death means that they still have time left to live.
The rhetorical device used by Twain in this excerpt is the anecdote (C.).
<u>An anecdote is defined as an entertaining narrative, usually relating biographical events</u>.
This definition fits to the text because the story is an account of events which happened to the character in the past ("One winter's night, two years ago, I...") and the narrative is comical enough to be considered for entertainement value ("I was carrying off a box of guns ... and he had got my corpse!").
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