Mark-Twain(马克·吐温介绍)

dialects(方言): the felicitous(恰当的) balancing of
nostalgic humorist and realism, humor and pathos(同情), innocence and evil, all united for a journey down the
Mark Twang styles
Colloquial Language（通俗语）
Satire（讽刺）
Examples:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The Damned Human Face
Mark Twain was the first important writer to consistently use the American speech rather than England’s English. His honor, whether it was aimed at pure entertainment or at social satire, was irresistible. His realism, and details influenced many later American novelists. That was why Ernest Hemingway once said “all modern American literatures came
The words used here are, perhaps “ammunition” which is etymologically(语 源上) French, mostly Anglo-Saxon in origin, and are short, concrete and direct in effect. Sentence structures are simple or compound, with a series of “then” and “and” and semi-colons serving as connectives. The repetition of the word “took” and the stringing together of things leave the impression that Mark Twain depend solely on the concrete object and action for the body and movement of his prose. What is more, there is an ungrammatical element, which gives the final finish to his style. The whole book approximates the actual speech habit of an uneducated boy from south American of the mid-nineteenth century.
from one book written by Mark
Twain called The Adventures of
e of Colloquial Language
1.1 Vernacular Language(方言） 1.2 Local Color 1.3 Pun（双关语）
American colloquial speech. It has something to do with
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn displays the major
achievements of his art: the carefully controlled point of view, with its implicit ironies expressed through the voice of a semiliterate(半文盲的) boy: the masterful use of
Mississippi that serves as the mythic center of the novel.
Vernacular Language
“I took the sack of corn meal and took it to where the canoe was hid, and shoved the vines and branches apart and put it in; then I done the same with the side of bacon; then the whisky-jug. I took all the coffee and sugar there was, and all the ammunition; I took the wadding; I took the bucket and gourd; took a dipper and a tin cup, and my old son and two blankets, and the skillet and the coffee-pot/ I took fish lines and matches and other things- everything that was worth a cent. I cleaned out the place I wanted an ax, but there wasn’t any, only the one out at woodpile, and I know why I was going to leave that. I fetched out the gun, and now I was done.” ———From The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn
ease and freedom in the use of language. Most of all, it has to do with the structure of the sentence, which is simple, direct, and fluent, maintaining the rhythm of the word’s group of speech and the intonations of the speaking voice. Mark Twain’s colloquial style has influenced a large number of American writers.