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A 6 page paper which presents the types of dialect found in Mark Twain's 'Huckleberry Finn.' Bibliography lists 1 additional sources.
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on using this paper properly! Introduction In Mark Twains book, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," we are presented with a great deal of variety in terms of dialect. It
is a book which offers up the type of dialects that are often difficult to understand and often difficult to discern in terms of its focus on one form of
dialect or another. Many may argue that much of the language is the same, and that there is very little difference between the forms of dialect. But, in reality, as
even argued by Twain himself, there are many forms of dialect. In the following paper we examine the forms of dialect found in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," discuss the
differences, and provide examples of the various forms. Forms of Dialect In first understanding the wide variety of forms of dialect found in "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,"
we present the introductory note provided by Twain, which not only argues that there are various forms of dialect, but also names the various forms within the novel: "IN this
book a number of dialects are used, to wit: the Missouri negro dialect; the extremest form of the backwoods Southwestern dialect; the ordinary "Pike County" dialect; and four modified varieties
of this last. The shadings have not been done in a haphazard fashion, or by guesswork; but painstakingly, and with the trustworthy guidance and support of personal familiarity with these
several forms of speech. I make this explanation for the reason that without it many readers would suppose that all these characters were trying to talk alike and not succeeding"
(Twain NA). We use the forms of dialect named by Twain in the following assessment of the book and its forms of speech. Those dialects are, noted above, "the Missouri
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