Huck Finn JeopardySentences Irony Satire Characters Events

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200 200 200 200 200

300 300 300 300 300

400 400 400 400 400

500 500 500 500 500

“Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; 

Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.”

Sentences– 100 points

“Then he…goes to dropping in his funeral orgies

again...”

Sentences– 200 points

“Fires are burning, horses are snorting, chestnuts are roasting.”

Literary Devices– 300 points

“…we would lay in ambuscade, as he called it, and kill the lot

and scoop the things.”

Literary Devices– 400 points

“Dey's two gals flyin' 'bout you in yo' life.

 One uv 'em's light en t'other one is dark.

One is rich en t'other is po'.”

Literary Devices– 500 points

"We was all glad as we could be, but Tom was the gladdest of all

because he had a bullet in the calf of his leg.“

Irony– 100 points

Tom knows that Jim has been freed, but goes on with

the escapade to help Jim “escape.”

Irony– 200 points

“We shan’t rob them of nothing at all ‘ceptin’ this money.”

Irony– 300 points

“I didn’t want to go back no more. I had stopped cussing, because pap hadn’t no objections. It was pretty

good times up in those woods there, take it all around.”

Irony– 400 points

But Tom Sawyer he hunted me up and said he was going to start

a band of robbers, and I might join if I would go back to the widow

and be respectable.”

Irony– 500 points

Shepherdsons and

Grangerfords

Theme or Satire– 100 points

Miss Watson ischurch-going proper woman

who uses snuff andowns slaves.

Theme or Satire– 200 points

“You didn’t want to come here—average men don’t like trouble and danger.

YOU don’t like trouble and danger. But if only HALF a man, such as Buck Harkness

there, shouts, “Lynch him! Lynch him!” then you’re afraid to back down.

You’re afraid that everyone will found out what you really are: COWARDS.

Theme or Satire– 300 points

Next Sunday we all went to church, about three

mile, everybody a-horseback. The men took their guns along,

so did Buck, and kept them between their knees or stood

them handy against the wall. The Shepherdsons done the same.

It was pretty ornery preaching—all about brotherly love,

and such-like tiresomeness;.

Theme or Satire– 400 points

 I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because

Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me,

and I can't stand it.  I been there before.

Theme or Satire– 500 points

Creates a Band of Robbers

Characters– 100 points

Believes ‘learnin’is bad.

Character– 200 points

Owns a Magic Hairball.

Character– 300 points

Performs Shakespeare

Character– 400 points

Sid

Characters– 500 points

Who sold Jim back into slavery

Events-100 points

Where Jim was held captive

Events– 200 points

Where Huck plans to go at the end of the novel

Events– 300 points

The reason Jim regretted beating his daughter ‘Lizbeth

Events– 400 points

What the townspeople did so they wouldn’t be

ashamed that they had been ripped off by the

Royal Nonesuch show. Events– 500 points

Mark Twain’s RealName

Final Jeopardy