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Tone
Mood
The River
Who Said It?
Potpourri
100
Tone comes from this person.
Who is the author or speaker.
100
Mood is this person's reaction to a passage.
Who is the reader.
100
This is the state in which St. Petersberg, where Huck starts the novel, is.
What is Missouri
100
This person said: "Dey's two angels hoverin' roun' 'bout him. One uv 'em is white en shiny, en t'other one is black. De white one gets him to go right a while, den de black one sail in en bust it all up. A body can't tell yit which one gwyne to fetch him at de las'."
Who is Jim?
100
This is when one thing is expected, but another thing, usually the opposite, happens instead.
What is irony.
200
An example of an adjective that could be used to describe tone, but not mood.
(any adjective describing attitude or intellect but not emotion)
200
Mood can only be this; it is never a product of the mind or attitude toward something.
What is emotion/feeling.
200
Huck and Jim's original plan was to travel where?
What is Cairo, Illinois, or up the Ohio River, or to the free states.
200
This person said: "Trouble has done it, Bilgewater, trouble has done it; trouble has brung these gray hairs and this premature balditude. Yes, gentlemen, you see before you, in blue jeans and misery, the wanderin', exiled, trampled-on, and sufferin' rightful King of France."
Who is the king/dauphin.
200
This is mockery designed to bring about social change.
What is satire?
300
The tone of this passage: "The girls were playing in the pond, splashing each other and trying to catch fish with their hands. They were having fun, but kept looking over their shoulders at the looming forest. The long grass of the field kept moving and they sort of felt like they were being watched… About a half hour passed and still the girls kept checking the field for movements. It seemed like a pair of dark eyes was on them. They even considered going back inside, but that would mean homework time. So they continued splashing, but with caution now. Their eyes hardly left the field."
What is suspenseful/nervous/fearful/foreboding
300
The mood of the following passage: "During the holidays, my mother's house glittered with decorations and hummed with preparations. We ate cookies and drank cider while we helped her wrap bright packages and trim the tree. We felt warm and excited, listening to Christmas carols and even singing along sometimes. We would tease each other about our terrible voices and then sing even louder."
What is happy/content or something similar.
300
This happened to the raft and caused Huck to take up residence with the Grangerfords.
What is it got run over by a steam boat.
300
This person said: "Well if that ain' just like you, Huck Finn. You can get up the infant-schooliest ways of going at a thing. Why hain't you ever ready any books at all? [...] Who ever heard of getting a prisoner loose in such an old-maidy way as that?"
Who is Tom Sawyer?
300
During which decade is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn set? (guess a decade/period/or name a relative event)
What is 1830s-60s, antebellum, or just before the Civil War.
400
The tone of the following: "I pointed to a man sleeping on the highest, narrow bench of the bleachers. His pants and shirt were faded, worn, and too large for his thin frame. One big toe stuck out of a huge hole in his sock. His scraped-up shoes sat a few feet away. I wished I could do something for him."
What is sympathetic/sad/helpless/pitying or something similar.
400
The mood of the following passage is: "Then he stopped right along and went away, and pretty soon the treees hid him. I poked into the plays a ways and come to a little open patch as big as a bedroom and all hung around with vines, and found a man laying there asleep--and, by jings, it was my old Jim!"
What is surprised/pleased/happy.
400
What are the stories given by the king and the duke when they join Huck aboard the raft?
The duke claims he is the Duke of Bridgewater in England but has fallen on hard times. The king claims he is the son of Louis XVI and has been displaced by the French revolution.
400
This person said: "It was a close place. I took it up, and held it in my hand. I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it. I studied a minute, sort of holding my breath, then says to myself 'All right, then, I'll go to hell'--and tore it up."
Who is Huck Finn
400
When was The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn written? Guess a decade, a relative event, or a time period.
What is 1880s, postbellum, or just after the Civil War.
500
The tone of the following is: "He don't mean nothing; he's always a-carryin' on like that when he's drunk. He's the best-naturedest old fool in Arkansaw--never hurt nobody, drunk nor sober."
What is apologetic/sympathetic/defensive or something similar.
500
What is the mood of this passage: "When I got down out of the tree I crept along down the river-bank a piece, and found two bodies laying there in the edge of the water, and tugged at them till I got them ashore; then I covered up their faces and got away as quick as I could. I cried a little when I was covering up Buck's face, for he was mighty good to me."
What is sad/sorrowful or something similar.
500
Jim intends to do this once he has his freedom.
What is buy up his family.
500
This person said: "Call this a govment! why, just look at it and see what it's like. Here's the law a-standing ready to take a man's son away from him--a man's own son, which he has had all the trouble and all the anxiety and all the expense of raising."
Who is Pap?
500
Mark Twain is the pen name of which author?
Who is Samuel Langhorne Clemens.