Read these lines from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and complete the sentences that follow.
I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat . . . I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he woulda thrown more style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.
The use of 1.____ in the excerpt above helps accomplish the Twain’s objective to capture the essence of people from different regions. He uses this technique to make the story more 2.___ , which is one of the main characteristics of 3.____ literature.
- dialects
formal language
- credible
serious
funny
- romantic
nineteenth century
realist
I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat . . . I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he woulda thrown more style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.
The use of 1.____ in the excerpt above helps accomplish the Twain’s objective to capture the essence of people from different regions. He uses this technique to make the story more 2.___ , which is one of the main characteristics of 3.____ literature.
funny
realist