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1、重庆大学本科学生课程论文简析马克吐温在汤姆索亚历险记中的幽默技巧学生:谭桥指导教师：杨宇班级： 003重庆大学二 O一三年十二月Course Essay of Chongqing UniversityAn Analysis of Mark TwainsHumor inThe Adventures of Tom SawyerClass: 003Student:Tan QiaoSupervisor: Yang YuChongqing UniversityDecember, 2013Table of Contents1 Introduction12 Use of colloquialism13Use
2、 of figures of speech24 Conclusion4References4IntroductionMost of Mark Twain s works are directed against the American society.He is good at using extreme technique, enlarge the ugly phenomenon tothereaders,letthemfindoutwhatisright,whatiswrongbythemselves. For this reason, Mark Twain has a lot of a
3、udiences in thewhole world.Hisworkshavepracticalsignificances,deservingtoanalyze. his thesis uses several points to expound Mark Twains humoris remarkable, it is fun to read Twain at first, for most of his worksthen to be funny, obtaining some practical jokes, comic details, wittyremarks and so on,
4、and some of them are actually tall tales. Today,most of the authors Twains humorous style as the main technique intheirliteraryworks,because itis the best weapon toattackthedarkness, could show the authors ideas better than any other ways.Thethesisconsistsoftwo parts.Thefirstpartof thebodyisadetaile
5、danalysisto theuseofcolloquiallanguage.Thenextpartspecifically states writing techniques inThe Adventure of Tom Sawyer.2 Use of colloquialismWhatever Mark Twain writes is pretty sure of an eager popular recognition. And it is due to him to say that he finds his readers and admirers all around the wo
6、rld. His application of colloquial languageto his word bestowed him the most powerful weapon to win him the outstanding status in history of literature.A factor that made Mark Twain unique is his magic power with language, his use of colloquial language. At that time, Mark Twain adopts the American
7、colloquial languages, hammering it into shape again and again. His words are vivid, concrete and direct in effect, and his sentencestructures are simple, even ungrammatical, which is typical of the spoken language. And Mark Twain skillfully used the colloquialism tocasthisprotagonistsintheireveryday
8、life.What more,hischaracters,confinedtoaparticularregionand toaparticularhistorical moment, speak with a strong accent, which is true of hislocal colorism. Besides, different characters from different literaryor culturalbackgroundstalkdifferently,as is thecasewithTom.Indeed, with his great master an
9、d effective use of vernacular, MarkTwainhasmade colloquialspeechanaccepted,respectableliterarymedium in the literary history of the country. His style of languagewas later taken up by his descendants, Sherwood Anderson and ErnestHemingway and influenced generations of letters.Colloquiallanguagealsog
10、ivesafacetoAmericanwriting,distinguishing it from writing in other parts of the world. It showsthe rural, uneducated portion of America. These is an example fromTheAdventure of Tom Sawyer:“Look at him, Jim! Hes a-going up there.Say-look! Hes a-going to shake hands with him.(Twain, 1996, P.28)This sh
11、ows how they are uneducated, because of the sloppy sentence structure, and it hints at the fact of them being rural by showing apoint of view from the poor, which is welcome to those who are tired of hearing about the glamour of rich people.3 Use of figures of speechTwain is also a master of figurat
12、ive techniques. He applied severalfigurative techniques inThe Adventures of Tom Sawyersuch as metaphor,transferredepithetandsoontoprovideemphasis,freshnessofexpression,orclarity.Twainsprofusionoflanguageenrichedthereaders effect of vivid scenes.Metaphor is the most common seen figure of speech in wr
13、itings. directly reflected the concept of human beings and humans subjective reaction to the outside world. The essence of metaphor is to understandItone things on the basis of another thing. Authors often apply metaphorin their writings to create humorous and ironic effects. Twains metaphoric const
14、ruction over his complete career and especially shedsnew light on his central texts.OldScratchinHesfulloftheOldScratch(Twain,1996,P.2)referstodevil.InhighfeatherinTo whichTom respondedwithjeers, and started off in high feather (Twain, 1996, P.8) means inhigh spirit. Here feather is compared as ones spirit.Tra
