Finally, let's proceed to the last part of our analysis.

    I shouldn't say that this text is full of expressive means and stylistic devices, because the author’s narration in rather serious, the main aim here is to show this ironical effect that one can observe in the end of the story. That’s why he tried not to express the personality of a main hero, no, he was a good boy. But through the actions and movements in a climatic moment, we can notice some means of expression, Mark Twain uses.
   In order to portray the characters, to render the mood and reveal the idea vividly and convincingly, the authir of analysed text resors to such devices:
Lexical: Hyperbole: ‘he wanted to travel thousands of miles and gaze on him’ – to show how boy’s dream is important and strong.
Syntactical: There are some cases of repetition: ‘ He wouldn’t play hookey, he wouldn’t lie; he wouldn’t play marbles on Sunday; he wouldn't rob birds' nests, he wouldn't give hot pennies to organ-grinders' monkeys – to point out, put a stress on the details of situation and to underline that Jacob is a good boy.

   Antithesis: ‘gloriously declining’ – to underline that to lie is not a good thing for good boys.

    Separation: ‘He longed to come across one of them alive once; but he never did’ – to emphasize the phrase which is separated.

   Phonetic: alliteration: ‘the other boys used to try to reason it out and come to an understanding of him’ – is used to make the utterance expressive and melodic.

    There are no graphic and phonetic, graphic means of expression.  

   Thus perished the good little boy who did the best he could, but didn’t come out according to the books. Every boy who ever did as he did prosper except him. His case is remarkable. It will probably never be accounted for.

    Summing up the analysis of the story we should say that Mark Twain brilliantly uses all the stylistic devices and this help us to feel the atmosphere of the story and to understand character's state of mind. This story has a very deep meaning. It makes us think about many things in our life.