Topics for Discussion: Write no less than l50 words on each of the following topics in English.Take Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn as an example to illustrate the statement that Mark Twain was a unique writer in American literature.
A. MARK TWAIN SHAPED THE WORLD’S VIEW OF AMERICA AND MADE AN EXTENSIVE COMBINATION OF AMERICAN FOLK HUMOR AND SERIOUS LITERATURE.
B. THE NOVEL HAS BECOME A GREAT CONTRIBUTION TO THE LEGACY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE.
C.THE NOVEL IS WRITTEN IN A LANGUAGE THAT IS TOTALLY DIFFERENT FROM THE RHETORICAL LANGUAGE USED BY HIS CONTEMPORARY WRITERS SUCH AS EMERSON, POE AND MELVILLE. IT IS SIMPLE, DIRECT, LUCID AND FAITHFUL TO THE COLLOQUIAL SPEECH. THIS STYLE OF COLLOQUIALISM IS BEST DESCRIBED AS "VERNACULAR".
D. HE SUCCESSFULLY USED LOCAL COLOR AND HISTORICAL SETTINGS TO ILLUSTRATE AND SHED LIGHT ON THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY. THAT‘S WHY HE IS KNOWN AS A LOCAL COLORIST.
E. MARK TWAIN'S HUMOR IS REMARKABLE, TOO. MOST OF HIS WORKS TEND TO BE FUNNY, CONTAINING SOME PRACTICAL JOKES, COMIC DETAILS, WITTY REMARKS, ETC. SOME OF THEM ARE TYPICAL OF TALL TALES. AND A GREAT DEAL OF HIS HUMOR IS CHARACTERIZED BY PUNS, STRAIGHT—FACED EXAGGERATION, REPETITION AND ANTI-CLIMAX. HE USES HIS HUMOR TO CRITICIZE THE SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND SATIRIZE THE DECAYED ROMANTICISM.
