What is the tone of this excerpt from mark twain's "mental telegraphy again"?

i have three or four curious incidents to tell about. they seem to come under the head of what i named "mental telegraphy" in a paper written seventeen years ago, and published long afterwards.—
several years ago i made a campaign on the platform with mr. george w. cable. in montreal we were honored with a reception. it began at two in the afternoon in a long drawing-room in the windsor hotel. mr. cable and i stood at one end of this room, and the ladies and gentlemen entered it at the other end, crossed it at that.

semiformal and controlled.

In this excerpt, Mark Twain adopts a semiformal and controlled tone when telling his story. He is semiformal because his language is easy to understand and reasonably casual. However, it is clear that he is addressing strangers, as opposed to friends and family. Also, we can tell that he is controlled because there are not extreme emotions in display.

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while his customary satire is present in mark twain's short story "the notorious jumping frog of calaveras county," there is a cloaking of this satire as twain's narrator is not directly involved. another literary device that you could build a thesis around is the use by twain of hyperbole.

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