Native American Literature
Writing
Huck Finn
Montana 1948
Academic Vocabulary
100
What the woman does in "World on the Turtle's Back" to create the plants that grow on the earth.
What is take roots from the tree?
100
The most important step of the writing process.
What is revision?
100
This character is a foil, or complete opposite, of Tom Sawyer.
Who is Huck Finn?
100
This character is described as a "man who tried to turn two ways."
Who is Wes Hayden?
100
The type of conflict Huck Finn, David Hayden, and Wes Hayden all struggle with.
What is an internal conflict?
200
This torments Arnold Joseph in the movie Smoke Signals.
What is the fatal house fire Arnold caused?
200
The five steps of the writing process.
What are prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing?
200
This character was "ruined as a slave" because of all the attention he got after witches rode him around the world.
Who is Jim?
200
The inciting incident in Montana 1948.
What is when Marie Little Soldier gets sick?
200
"You wore go-go boots and bell bottoms" is an example of this literary device.
What is alliteration?
300
This is a type of literature that features an animal or person who typically engages in deceit, violence, and magic.
What is a trickster tale?
300
What is the error called in this sentence? The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is a frequently challenged book To Kill a Mockingbird is another.
What is a fused sentence?
300
What Huck wants to avoid becoming.
What is "sivilized"?
300
These two characters from Montana 1948 died from strokes from keeping the secret about Uncle Frank's death.
Who are Julian Hayden and Len McAuley.
300
The type of literature used to not just entertain its culture, but to teach the culture how things came to be.
What is mythology?
400
A collection of customs and beliefs that make up a group's way of life.
What is culture?
400
What is the error in this sentence called? Each of the students should take out their laptops.
What is bad pronoun agreement?
400
One target of Mark Twain's satire in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What is greed, hypocrisy, religion, mobs, government, slavery laws/practices, small towns, rich Southerners...
400
What David Hayden believes would solve all of his father's problems.
What is Uncle Frank's death?
400
Native Americans are stoic, Western sheriffs wear a star badge and carry a gun, and slaves aren't very smart. These are examples of this term.
What are stereotypes?
500
A motif is a thematic element that recurs in works of art. Name one motif from the movie Smoke Signals.
What is the father/son relationship OR the journey OR the Indian warrior/Indian storyteller OR death and rebirth?
500
Of, from, above, to, in, and for are examples of this part of speech.
What are prepositions?
500
The main conflict in Mark Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
What is Huck's internal struggle between society and his conscience (should he break the law and help Jim escape or listen to society and turn Jim in)?
500
The images the narrator in Montana 1948 presents readers in the prologue are examples of this literary technique author's use to build suspense.
What is foreshadowing?
500
When Huck tells readers that he and Jim didn't try to land a catfish because "it would have flung them into Illinois" Twain is using this humor technique.
What is hyperbole?