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Huck Finn Vocabulary

Huck Finn Vocabulary. Satire Parody Romanticism Realism Dialect Bildungsroman Vernacular. Satire (N.). Literary genre that uses humor to create social criticism.

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Huck Finn Vocabulary

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  1. Huck Finn Vocabulary

  2. Satire • Parody • Romanticism • Realism • Dialect • Bildungsroman • Vernacular

  3. Satire (N.) • Literary genre that uses humor to create social criticism. • EX: Jonathan Swift had difficulty explaining that in his essay, “A Modest Proposal”, he was being satirical when suggesting people eat babies to save money and control the population.

  4. Parody (N.) • Genre that uses imitation to create humor. • EX: Tina Fey expertly parodied Sarah Palin’s “plain folks” attitudes on SNL.

  5. Romanticism (N.) • Genre in which an idealized hero or heroine undertakes a quest and is successful • EX: In a romance, the hero usually has a noble purpose.

  6. Poetic Justice (N.) • Term in literature for when characters get what they deserve. • EX: In a romance, poetic justice must be served. For example, in Disney’s Aladdin, Jafar shows his power hungry nature by wishing to be a genie, and gets bottled up in a lamp.

  7. Realism (N.) • Style of writing that attempts to depict life accurately without idealizing or romanticizing it. • EX: in a realist work, the universe is sometimes cruel, sometimes kind, but mostly random.

  8. Vernacular (N.) • The common language of the people. • EX: When the Bible was first translated into the vernacular (rather than Hebrew, Latin, or Greek), many more people were exposed to its message.

  9. Dialect (N.) • Way of speaking characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. • EX: The slang they used made it hard for Mr. McCarthy to understand them. He wasn’t injured, so why were they saying he’s “hurt”?

  10. Bildungsroman (N.) • Genre of novel that focuses on the psychological and moral growth of the protagonist from youth to adulthood. • EX: To Kill a Mockingbird could be considered a bildungsroman that discusses Scout’s growth.

  11. Stock Character (N.) • Fictional character based on a common literary stereotype. • EX: Many consider Iago from Shakespeare’s Othello a stock character, because he is evil for no reason.

  12. Regionalism • A literary focus on specific features, including characters, dialect, and history, of a particular region. • EX: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn exhibits regionalism in its look at Mississippi River Life.

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