HUCK FINN TERMS
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- Foil
- characters in a novel that are sharply in contrast with the main character in terms of appearance, thoughts, or actions
- Practical Morality
- decision making dependent on what works, doesn't work
- Dialect
- a distinct form of a language as it is spoken in a geographical area or by a particular social or ethnic group
- Realism
- refers to a literary method; writing based on careful observations of contemporary life, focus=middle class, lower class, represent honestly
- Social Commentary
- events portrayed by the author in which the purpose is to point out the faults in society; often comical
- Colloquial
- an expression or phrase that is modern
- Guilded Age
- Golden Age, the time period in which Americans strayed closer to greed and materialism
- Socratic Irony
- Pretense of ignorance in a discussion to expose the fallacies in opponents logic
- Local Color Realism
- a style of writing that truel portrays ordinary life and brings a particular region alive by portraying the dialects, dress, mannerism,...of that region
- Vernacular
- the standard native or indigenous language of a region
- picaresque
- the journey; in particular the series of adventures
- Satire
- literary work that attacks human voice through irony and other lit devices
- Bildungsroman
- a novel of education, coming of age novel
- Versimilitude
- A description of events told by the author that appears to be true but is not necessarily true.
- Utilitarian
- the belief in the useful or practical