Who Said It
"Why, blame it all, we've got to do it. Don't I tell you it's in the books?"
Tom
These characters share $12,000 from solving a crime.
Tom and Huck
It was once thought that shooting a cannon over the water would do this.
Bring up a dead body
The King and the Duke act out this pair of star-crossed lovers in a play
Romeo and Juilet
These people will give you money and try to get away instead of helping you if your family has smallpox
Slave catchers
On the plot line this would be when Huck escaped from Pap
Inciting Event
"Say, I got another idea. Le's go upstairs and count this money, and then lets take and give it to the girls."
The Duke
This person is overheard talking about selling her slave downriver...
Miss Watson
The two rivers that meet at Cairo
Mississippi and Ohio
A sick Arab
He tells off a mob of people for their cowardliness and and lynching of people at night
Col. Sherburn
These characters are usually flat characters with assumed characteristics that anyone from a certain culture would understand
Stock Characters
Tramp-tramp-tramp; that's the dead; tramp-tramp-tramp; they're coming after me but I won't go.
Pap
Huck continues living with the Widow Douglas because this character told him he must be respectable enough to be in the gang
Tom Sawyer
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Huck tells us that sometimes steamboat captains do this to get a laugh...
People will pay $0.50 to see this one time, but the next time they'll come with rotten fruit.
The Royal Nonesuch
He prays nightly with a captured slave, but still plans on turning him in.
(Uncle) Silas Phelps
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Most readers agree this is the moral climax of the story, when Huck says....
When I start in to steal a [slave], or a watermellon, or a Sunday-school book, I ain't no ways particular how it's done so it's done."
Huck Finn
This character seems understanding and compassionate about the short-comings of boys and tries to teach Bible lessons at night.
Widow Douglas
The name of the wrecked boat and an author Mark Twain was not fond of
Walter Scott
The King and the Duke claim to be these two brothers from England.
William and Harvey
This person can spell "Gorge Jaxson" without difficulty
Buck Shepardson
satire
"Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression. Misfortune has broken my haughty spirit; I yield, I submit, 'tis my fate."
The Duke
While this character is never actually present at any point in the story, other characters believe he has come for a surprise visit.
Sid Sawyer
This whole episode shows Twain's feelings against grudges and unnecessary loss of life.
The Shepardson/Grangerford Feud
The most despicable moment for the readers is when these two characters do this
This character cannot sleep at night because he is tormented by witches. After Tom Sawyer's visit, he'll probably be worse off.
Nat the slave
At the time of Twain's writing this was a strictly American writing style that showed various parts and people of the country as the really were.
Regionalism