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An Epic Journey
Characters Galore
Rhetorically Strategic
Twain-tastic
Literary Periods
100
If you want to float down the river to freedom, you will first need to find this piece of transportation.
What is a raft?
100
This guy gets shot.
Who is Boggs?
100
The use of the river and/or the raft to stand for "freedom" is an instance of what rhetorical device?
What is symbolism?
100
Mark Twain was the pen name for this man.
Who is Samuel Longhorne Clemens?
100
Thoreau and Emerson were best known for writing in this literary period.
What is Transcendentalism?
200
Huck reads poetry from this girl when he stays with his new friends the Grangerfords.
Who is Emmeline (Grangerford)?
200
Huck has a bit of a crush on this girl.
Who is Mary Jane?
200
Which character experienced a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age?
Who is Huckleberry Finn?
200
Twain utilized this technique, of writing dialogue as it would naturally sound.
What is vernacular?
200
This literary period focused on a lot of religious writing, and didn't produce much fiction (or entertainment).
What is Puritanism?
300
Our superstitious narrator now knows to avoid this type of animal, which has brought him and Jim nothing but bad luck.
What is a snake?
300
The person entrusted with Huck's money.
Who is Judge Thatcher?
300
The type of irony witnessed when the uneducated Pap complains about the educated black man being able to vote.
What is situational irony?
300
Twain worked in this career for a few years.
What is river (or steamship) pilot?
300
One of the main genres of the Rationalist period was this, often written down after its verbal version had already been performed.
What are speeches?
400
The climax of Huck’s journey can be said to occur at this event.
What is tearing up the letter to Miss Watson?
400
One of the two men who start to question the duke and the king when they are impersonating the Wilks brothers.
Who is Dr. Robinson? or Who is Levi Bell?
400
These two characters illustrate the theme that greed can have dangerous consequences.
Who are the duke and the king (or "dauphin")?
400
Twain is best known for writing in the Realism literary period; he often employed this literary device, where one tries to imitate reality in writing.
What is verisimilitude?
400
This author wrote imaginative works such as "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" and "Rip Van Winkle."
Who is Washington Irving?
500
The king and the duke almost get attacked by a mob when they perform this “No Women and Children Admitted” show.
What is the Royal Nonesuch?
500
The name that Tom signs to the anonymous letters he gives to the Phelps.
Who is "UNKNOWN FRIEND"?
500
The Grangerford versus Sheperdson feud acts as an allusion to these TWO stories (one fictional, one historical).
What is the Civil War and "Romeo and Juliet"?
500
This astronomical event occurred, strangely, in both Twain’s birth year and death year.
What is Halley’s Comet?
500
The 6 American Literary periods we studied, all the way up to 1890.
What are Puritanism, Rationalism (and Deism), Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Dark Romanticism (or Anti-Transcendentalism), and Realism?