Read these lines from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain, and complete the sentences that follow.

I felt very good; I judged I had done it pretty neat . . . I reckoned Tom Sawyer couldn’t a done it no neater himself. Of course he woulda thrown more style into it, but I can’t do that very handy, not being brung up to it.

The use of __1__ in the excerpt above helps accomplish the Twain’s objective to capture the essence of people from different regions. He uses this technique to make the story more _2__ , which is one of the main characteristics of _3___ literature.

Blank 1
a. dialects
b. formal language

Blank 2.
a. credible
b. serious
c. funny

Blank 3.
a. romantic
b. nineteenth century
c. realist