Terms for Huck Finn

A novel about the trials and tribulations of growing up
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A novel about the trials and tribulations of growing up
Coming of age novel
The story of a rascal who makes his living more through his wits than his industry. This type of story usually lacks structure; it often presents little more than a series of thrilling incidents and predicaments, making living by wits, almost criminal
Picaresque novel
A story in which the protagonist is searching for something, often something tangible (the Holy Grail or a father) or some intangible object (courage)
Quest novel
The irony of when the speaker means the opposite of what is actually said
Verbal irony
The irony of when the reader or the audience is privy to some knowledge that the character does not have
Dramatic irony
The irony of when the outcome of a story or incident is the opposite of what was expected
Situational irony
A literary work which mocks and exaggerates the vices and weaknesses of an individual or institution. The intent is to improve people and society
Satire
What does satire tend to be aimed toward?
Politicians, celebrities (public figures in general)
What did people back in the day call slavery?
The peculiar institution
Writers of this trend value the creative function of he imagination, often claiming that this faculty helps one arrive at greater truths than those revealed by facts or logic, frequently desire to return to the past in some way, to escape from day-to-day problems of the present, idealized small town life> the writers of this style wanted people to know what it was like in the smaller part of U.S.
Romanticism
Writers of this trend are less concerned with their own subjective responses and more concerned with the tangible words outside their psyches. Generally deal with the social problems of real persons in real places in the present, settings are ordinary, characters are ordinary, and their focus is on life as it is rather than what it might beRealismWriters of this trend specialize in describing places, events, manners, and even the speech of specific regions and locales, this movement is considered fundamentally realistic as a whole, strove to write dialogue that sounded the way people actually spoke, generally described places with great fidelity of detail, basically interested in portraying and analyzing ordinary people and eventsRegionalism or local color writingRealism carried to an extreme people, like everything else in the universe, are subject to natural laws, human beings do not have free will, they are driven by powerful and blind biological urges, people are simply slaves to their heredity and environment, writers of this use great masses of detail in depicting human experiences, and they dealt with the uglier side of lifeNaturalism or determinism