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The island where Huck and Jim meet one another.
Jackson Island
The celestial event which occurred both on the day Twain
was born and on the day he died.
Halley’s Comet
The literary style that makes fun of human weaknesses
throughout most of the Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
satire
The fictional name of Huck Finn’s hometown…
St. Petersburg
Mark Twain’s real name.
Samuel Clemens
The deceased man who leaves his fortune to his daughters
and his long lost brothers from England.
Peter Wilks
The Grangerford who falls in love with a Shepherdson.
Sophia
The one man who calls the King and the Duke’s bluff.
Dr. Robinson
After the night of heavy fog when Huck and Jim are
separated from each other, Huck teases Jim by saying…
He was just dreaming
up the whole story.
The name of the show the Duke and King put together
which includes an assortment of Shakespearian highlights.
The Royal Nonesuch
The name for a sandbar with cottonwoods growing on it.
towhead
The town Huck and Jim want to reach where the Ohio
River meets the Mississippi.
Cairo
He repels an angry lynch mob by calling everyone of them
cowards and daring anyone to come forward and get him.
Colonel Sherburn
Attacked by “delirious tremons” from drinking too much
Pap
The dead body of the “floating house of death”
Pap
Well, I did. I said I wouldn’t and I’ll stick to it. Honest Injun,
I will. People would call me a low-down Abolutionist and
despise me for keeping mum—but that don’t make no
difference.
• Huck Finn
Call this a government! 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…
• Pap
It’s as simple as tit-tat-toe, three in a row and as easy as
playing hooky. I should hope we can find a way that’s a
little more complicated than that, Huck Finn
Tom Sawyer
Keep your hands off of me. You talk like an Englishman,
don’t you! It’s the worst imitation I ever heard. You’re a
fraud, that’s what you are.
Dr. Robinson
The Grangerford boy who befriends Huck
Buck