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PAGE  PAGE 15 An Analysis of the Writing Styles of Mark Twain Contents Abstract Key Words3 Introduction 5 1. The Background of Mark Twain4 1.1 Mark Twain and His Experienc4 1.2 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 4 1.3 A General Introduction to the Mississippi5 2. Analyzing Two Writing Styles of Mark Twain (in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn) 5 2.1 Use of Colloquial Language6 2.1.1 Vernacular Language 6 2.1.2 Local Color 8 2.1.3 Pun9 2.2 Satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn9 2.2.1 Vanity10 2.2.2 Unquestioning Acceptance of Violence11 2.2.3 Coward12 2.2.4 Slave13 2.3 A Combination of Colloquial Language and Satire14 3. The Significance of Mark Twain’s Writing Styles14 Conclusion15 Bibliography16 Abstract Mark Twain (pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910), was an American writer, journalist and humorist, who won a worldwide audience for his stories of the youthful adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn.His colloquial Language and Satire in the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Key Words: American writer, Huckleberry Finn. ? 1. The Background of Mark Twain 1.1 Mark Twain and His Experience Mark Twain, pseudorym of Samuel langhone Clemens, was brought up in the town of Hannibal, Missouri, near the Mississippi River. He was twelve when his father diod and he had to leave school. He was successively a printer’s apprentice, a tramp printer, a silver miner, a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi, and a frontier journalist in Nevada and California. This knocking about gave him a wide knowledge of humanity. As one of America’s first and foremost realists and humorists, Mark Twain usually wrote about his own personal experiences and things he knew about from firsthand experience. His life spanned the two Americas, the frontier America and the emerging urban, industrial giant of the twenty-century. As a witness of the civil war, Twain saw clearly the great changes in nation’s economic development and political life. With the final victory over t