Examples Of Diction In Huckleberry Finn

The literary device most prominent in the excerpt from, “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” is diction. In the excerpt, Tom Sawyer ger\ts his friends together and leads them to a cave. Here, he swears them to secrecy when he starts the oath to their band of robbers and calls it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. They talk out the oath with each other and make strict rules to firmly follow. In the excerpt, Mark Twain’s words and the author’s words and the characters’ use of diction creates a radical effect that builds the mood of the story. The author’s use of diction evokes urgency and authoritativeness. An example from the text when Tom’s speech showed authority is, “Now we’ll start this band of robbers and call it Tom Sawyer’s Gang. Everybody that wants to join has got to take an oath, and write his name in blood.” Tom’s control is shown here by his commands to the boys. “Why blame it all, we’ve got to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do you want to go to doing anything different from what's in the books, and get things all muddled up?” Tom is trying to relay the sense of urgency he feels with the boys to execute their jobs as a new gang as followed by the books. Tom believes it is necessary to follow what the robbers

Ben Rogers says, “Here’s Huck Finn, he ain’t got no family; what you going to do ‘bout him?” Ben Rogers was asking how they would kill Huck’s family if he told any of the secrets because he doesn’t have any family. “Why blame it all, we’ve got to do it. Don’t tell you it’s all in the books, and get things all muddled up?” Tom is defending his ideas that are coming from books. The diction in the story changes when Tom is trying to convince the boys the fundamentals in the books. Their speech and phrases become more intense and portray the type of gang they will be. Tom copies his oath from books, which is shown when he creates his irrational and complex