Huck Finn Vocab

Flashcards covering key literary and historical terms.

Guile

Deceitful slyness.

Subversive

Able to undermine morals, allegiance, or faith.

Huckleberry

1800's slang for an unimportant person.

Satire

A device that uses several tools with humor to attack ideas, institutions, or people with intent to reform and improve.

Abolitionist

People who advocated ending U.S. slavery.

Superstition

Belief or practice resulting from ignorance, fear of the unknown, or trust in magic or chance.

Rapscallion

Slang for a worthless person.

Vigilante

A person who takes the law into his/her own hands.

Euphemism

Substitution of an inoffensive expression for one that's unpleasant.

Motif

A pattern or recurring situation, used to facilitate theme.

Aristocracy

A select governing body or upper class.

Monarchy

Government with a hereditary chief of state.

Malapropism

Humorous misuse of a word.

Farce

Ridiculous dramatic composition using outrageous action to elicit laughter.