Question

"Yes; en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns mysef, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'." (p. 49)
In the passage above, which literary technique is Twain using?

Answer 1

Answer: dialect

Explanation:

The literary technique that Mark Twain is using in this passage is "dialect". A dialect is a regional or social variety of a language. We can distinguish a dialect by the pronunciation, grammar, and/or vocabulary used.

In Mark Twain's passage, the dialect is used to give the reader an idea of how the charactet looks like.

Answer 2

He is using a drawl so the reader can picture the literary technique used in the story.