HF+Literary+Terms



Allusion to the Bible Matthew 6:6: "But thou, when thou prayest, enter into thy closet." || is the perspective from which a story is told. || The novel is in in first person because Huck is narrating the story from his perspective. ||
 * Literary Terms || Definition || Huck Finn Application ||
 * Episodic Novel || A novel separated into different parts or sections, loosely connected. || Huck Finn is divided into three sections. ||
 * Bildungsroman || A novel about the education and maturing of a young person. || Huckleberry Finn is a young teenager who learns to respect and appreciate Jim, a slave, during a racist time period. ||
 * Dialect || An accent or difference in the way a person or group speaks a language, often differentiated by location. || The way the characters, especially Jim, speak in their southern accents. ||
 * Foil || A comparison between two characters. || The differences between Huck and Tow Sawyer. Example: Huck is practical while Tom is imaginative. ||
 * Vernacular || native or indigenous language || Huck Finn speaks in a language that southern people use, which was very different from those of the north. ||
 * Socratic Irony || a pose of ignorance assumed in order to entice others into making statements that can then be challenged. || Twain (Clemens) plays dumb and uses Huck and Jim's innocent blossoming friendship to get people to begin to question the whole "blacks and whites can't have friendships only ownership relations" idea. ||
 * Verisimilitude || to make something appear true, or realistic || the fact that the novel was written based on real events and historical facts. ||
 * Local Color Realism || realistic views/ideas that capture local aspects || slavery was a local realistic aspeect along the Mississippi River Valley ||
 * Romanticism || is attitudes, ideals and feelings which are romantic rather than realistic || Huck Finn is a parody of popular romance novels. It is full of people who base their lives on romantic literary models and stereotypes of various kinds. ||
 * Allusion || making a refence to another literary work in a piece of literatute || Chapter 3: "Then Miss Watson she took me in the closet.."
 * Point of View ||
 * Satire || the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. || The way the novel is written. ||