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Read the excerpt from on the road in those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the wonderful possibilities of becoming a real intellectual, and he liked to talk in the tone and using the words, but in a jumbled way, that he had heard from "real intellectuals"-although, mind you, he wasn't so naive as that in all other things, and it took him just a few months with carlo marx to become completely in there with all the terms and jargon. which is a key feature of kerouac's diction that contributes to his writing style? a. the use of youth culture slang. b. the use of academic language. c. the use of words from other languages. d. the use of regional dialects.