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!").
Excitement, should be the answer! I cannot tell much more because there is not much context. I hope you pass your exam, though :>
Nouns are actual things or objects. From that you know that skin is a thing, lobsters are things and claws are things so the answers are C D and E
Answer:
C.
Explanation:
It keeps the ground clean by feeding on dead animals