What suffix commonly denotes a practice or an attitude?

Phillis wheatley often used to manipulate lines of poetry in order to create perfect rhyme patterns. enjambment sonnets irregular syntax imagery

What is implied in this sentence from mark twain's "the £1,000,000 bank-note"? i was puzzled, and wanted to discuss the matter a little further, but they didn't; so i took my leave, feeling hurt and insulted to be made the butt of what was apparently some kind of a practical joke, and yet obliged to put up with it, not being in circumstances to resent affronts from rich and strong folk.

Which statement about thoreau's rhetorical style is most accurate?