Life On The Mississippi Diction

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Although Mark Twain “is more or less forced to retain the posture and voice of the sophisticated author,” in Life on the Mississippi, one must consider the author’s use of diction, punctuation, and commonality in the text to illustrate he is still the boy who became passionate about becoming a steamboat pilot (Bassett 42).
One no longer notices Mark Twain has a famous author’s name, but instead glances over an audacious phrase while reading Chapter Seven: A Daring Deed in Life on the Mississippi.
The diction, punctuation, and lower case use of “mark twain” allows one to accept the author’s name as a common, insignificant, yet bold identity, “I had better water than that, and ran it lower down; started out from the false point--mark twain--raised

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