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seem to hear and feel the sounds the writer is trying to convey.
This is an example from Tom Sawyer :
"Set her back on the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! chow! ch-chow-wow! chow!".
(Twain 15). This dialect can be explained as a familiar speech spoken around us all the time. It is the speech of the illiterate, the preliterate, the children, and the poor people (Bloom 46). This is actually a very intelligent style of writing, for it is difficult for an author to write in a different level of dialect than they actually speak. The reader can tell that this dialect isn’t Twain’s own, since he doesn’t write with it in every part of the book. Huckleberry Finn is supposed to be written from Huck’s point of view. The story is written as he would speak it, so mistakes inevitably appear. However, this single- minded dialect was worked, composed, and written by Twain. It was not done haphazardly (Bloom 46). American literature would not be the same if ...

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a face to American writing, distinguishing it from writing in other parts of the world.
The vernacular also shows the rural, uneducated portion of America. These are two examples from Tom Sawyer : " Can’t, Mars Tom. Ole missis, she tole me I got to go an’ git dis water an’ not stop foolin’ roun’ wid anybody. She say she spec’ Mars Tom gwine to ax me to whitewash, an’ so she tole me to go ‘long an’ ‘tend to my own business - she ‘lowed she’d tend to de whitewashin’" (Twain 13). Another example is: " Look at him, Jim! He’s a-going up there. Say-look! He’s a-going to shake hands with ...

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