Question

In an essay, this author demonstrates the ridiculousness of capitalizing all nouns by translating “The Tale of the Fishwife and its Sad Fate.” An essay by this author complains of the “overwrought reverence” and “callous disrespect” of the fact that “a young lady has no sex, while a turnip has” in the title language. This author so hated (15[1])a French translation (15[1])of one (15[1])of his stories that he (15[1])retranslated (-5[1])it and subtitled it “Clawed Back Into a Civilized Language (15[3])Once More.” The advice (*) “Use the right word, not its second cousin” (-5[1])and (-5[1])“Eschew (-5[1])surplusage” (-5[1])appears in an essay by this (-5[1])writer that complains about how an (-5[1])author “scored 114 offenses…out (10[1])of a possible (10[1])115” in that author’s novel The Deerslayer. For 10 points, name this American satirist who wrote “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary (10[1])Offenses” and created Huckleberry (10[1])Finn. (10[2])■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Mark Twain [or Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (The essay in the first two sentences is “The Awful German Language.”)
<CM, American Literature>
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Michał GerasimiukStanford ABerkeley A5715
Ben KoberlinNotre Dame APurdue A6015
Jonathan HaimowitzAuxiliary CLUClaremont6215
Mattias EhatammWaterlooToronto Ray of Sun in the Sky6715
Tanuj ChandekarIndianaIllinois A68-5
Steven YuanBerkeley BBerkeley C7815
Raymond WangCornell RCornell MATLAB7815
Cameron JonesMissouri BSIUE7815
Michael DurrantNotre Dame BVanderbilt90-5
Braden BoothMissouri AWUSTL XYZ91-5
Cade ReinbergerRITSyracuse+Rochester92-5
Gabrielle ClarkOttawa AOttawa B93-5
Ian ChowMcDouble West-CarletonOttawa C99-5
Yash MandaviaIllinois BPurdue B105-5
Robert CondronChicago AChicago B10910
Gabe ForrestSquidward Community CollegeWUSTL H2O11210
Gavin MarkoffVanderbiltNotre Dame B13110
Neal JoshiWUSTL XYZMissouri A13510
Ishan JoshiOttawa BOttawa A13610
Michael HundingIllinois AIndiana13610
Aedan CooperOttawa CMcDouble West-Carleton13710
Davis JohnsonPurdue BIllinois B13710
Sanjeev UppaluriSyracuse+RochesterRIT13710