Question

Hamlin Garland's "The Return of a Private" contains the following lines:"I hope to God it will! I bet I've chawed hardtack enough to shingle every house in the coolly. I've chawed it when my lampers was down, and when they wasn't. I've took it dry, soaked, and mashed. I've had it wormy, musty, sour, and blue-mouldy. I've had it in little bits and big bits; 'fore coffee an' after coffee."Of what is this excerpt an example?

Answer 1

I would say dialect. It's an example of when authors write a character talking as they pronounce the words. Some author's don't do that; I remember one author saying if she wrote her native dialect out in words, no-one would be able to understand it, so she never did.

Chawed sounds like it it might mean chewed, or eaten, in this person's dialect. Lampers, I have no idea what that is, or coolly but it's obviously slang.

Answer 2

Dialect.

Step-by-step explanation:

Hamlin Garland's "The Return of A Private" is the typical story based n the lines of a soldier returning home from way to start living a life of domestic struggle. Aptly characterized Private Edward Smith returns after the Civil War along with numerous other soldiers. Since he is sick and have hardly enough money to get back home, he could not afford a hotel and slept outdoors.

The given passage shows him talking about the time he suffered more than he is currently now, eating hardtack more before in times of desperation. This given excerpt is an example of a dialect where authors provide speeches to their characters within the story. They are given direct narration, seeming like they are directly talking or in conversation with the readers.