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Huck Finn 1-12 Test
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11th Grade
01/29/2013

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Term
Realism is a reaction to _________________
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Romanticism
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Realist writers were interested in....
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ordinary characters

plots that consist of ordinary events

objectivity

social criticism
Term
What is objectivity?
Definition
author removes himself from the story
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When was Mark Twain alive?
Definition
1835-1910
Term
Mark Twain was a pen name for.....
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Samuel L. Clemens
Term
What was Mark Twains main landscape in writing?
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Mississippi River
Term
How old was Twain when his father died?
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12
Term
How did Twain feel about the slaveholding south?
Definition
he was critical of it
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Huck Finn is a persona of ______________________ vs _____________________
Definition
Mark Twain vs Samuel Clemens
Term
When was Innocents Abroad written?

It is an _________________ and __________________ motif
Definition
1869

irony and journey
Term
When was Roughing It written?

What is the narrarator in Roughing it?
Definition
1872

1st person, unreliable narrarator
Term
When was Adventures of Tom Sawyer written?

Where was it set?

what world was it set in?
Definition
1876

set in St. Petersburg

Childhood/Boyhood world
World of the River
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When was Life on the Mississippi written?
Definition
1883
Term
When was Huck Finn written?
Definition
1885
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What is WSD?
Definition
Walter Scott Disease; insanity that comes from reading too many romantic novels
Term
What are some examples in Huck Finn of WSD?
Definition
Tom Sawyer (his gang)

Feud b/w Sheperdsons and Grangerfords
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What is the "Jim" problem?
Definition
decision Huck has to make regarding Jim between what society says is right and what he knows in his heart to be true
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What are some examples of the "Jim" problem?
Definition
Jacksons Island

Searching for Cairo

letter to Miss Watson
Term
The woman exercised temperance in filling her plate with small portions of food
Definition
temperance
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relating to hell
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infernal
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to do away with
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abolish
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developing or in the process of happening
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afoot
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to cause one to become confused
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confound
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lacking in seriousness or importance
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frivolous
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arrogant, excessively proud and vain
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haughty
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foretelling the future by means of magic
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divination
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