... laugh about during the Civil War, and the difficult years of reconstruction afterwards. Neither did Samuel L. Clemens, forever to be known as Mark Twain. He was frequently broke and unemployed, and lost three of his four children in either infancy or adolescence. Nevertheless, he still managed to ... about them, can cease to be novelties and become commonplaces in thirty years. Then that sermon can thenceforth interest no one- (DeVoto 202). Mark Twain was one of the Southwestern humorists who were dubbed "literary comedians,"" and included George Horatio Derby (John Phoenix), Charles Far...

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... its unique literary style which other vocabulary layers hardly or never have, and these styles usually bring about and embody the different intentions and psychology of slang users.? (1991:4) Hereinafter, Author analyzes the different psychology from word form, parts of speech and word meaning. 1.3.1 Morphology 1.3.1.1 Acronym SOB is acronym of son of bitch, e.g. I asked him for money for gas, ... 2000:36). F.G.Cassely pointed out that it was the most difficult to limit slang,only one generally accepted standard perhaps is flaunt, exaggerate, without restrain?(Liukaifang,1995:128). Acco...

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... 1865) up until the turn of the century is known as "The Gilded Age". Poked fun of because of the rampant epidemic of corruption, Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner coined the term: "The Gilded Age," and began calling it that. This era, although it was probably one of ... dynamic change in various areas, including politics, business, labor unions, race relations, intellectual history, the role of women, foreign affairs, technology, etc" (Mark). The business world of large national corporations gave rise to what modern days business consist of today. National brand names, building of na...

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... vampires to the mortal world. Because of this, a large following of Rice's characters has developed, especially Lestat de Lioncourt. Lestat is the hypothetical author of The Vampire Lestat, The Queen of the Damned, The Tale of the Body Thief, and Memnoch the Devil.25 His fans, including Rice herself ... his gray eyes [burning] with an incandescence,"28 and whispering to them some unknown truth that would explain the workings of the universe. Another famous author with a large cult following is Stephen King.29 His works have gained a great audience not because of their characters or stori...

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... abducted him and his sister into slavery. The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equaino, or Gustavus Vassa, The African, is a biography about the author's life in an African village, his kidnapping, his being made a slave and his horrendous voyage on a slave ship, his bondage in the Americas, ... for his freedom, Johnson clearly sees slavery based on a man's color as wrong. "His color is considered as a sufficient testimony against him- (2811). The author goes on to say: "The sum of the argument is this "No man is by nature the property of another: The defendant is therefore b...

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... romantic notion of American frontier life. "English novelists such as Joseph Conrad and D. H. Lawrence praised his work; American writers have been of differing opinions. Herman Melville admired Cooper's sea tales; Mark Twain questioned his knowledge of wilderness survival and ridiculed his handling of character and dialogue (Encarta.)" Although Cooper's writing ability may be perceived in modern standards as dubious. Cooper's talent found ... that James Fenimore Cooper's works had no literary value. It is because they did, his works are the among the enduring legacies of American roman...

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