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20 Cards in this Set
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jew's-harp
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a small, metal mouth instrument that makes a twanging noise
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kin
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relation
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larboard
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the left side of a ship
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lath
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wood
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left-shoulder
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Huck tosses salt over his left shoulder in a superstitious act to ward off bad luck after spilling the salt
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Leviticus
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a book from, the Bible, not a man, as Huck states
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Louis XVI
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Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette were king and queen of France in the late 18th century. They were beheaded during the French Revolution. Making this and similar claims to royalty was a popular scam in America during the 19th century.
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lynched
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killed by a mob
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made my mark
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used an X instread of writting, Because Huck "made [his] mark," the reader can safely assume that he cannot write his name. In this a basic contradiction, since we are to believe that Huck is the narrator of the book?
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melodeon
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a small organ
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middling
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moderately
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mire
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mud
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mortification
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an old term for gangrene, when tissue decays from the loss of blood
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Muddy
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["the big Muddy"] the nickname for the Misissippi River, the river
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mulatter
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Pap's mispronunciation of mulatto, a person with one black parent and one white parent, or any person with mixed ancestry
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nap
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the downy surface of cloth
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Nonesuch
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a person or thing without an equal
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n-word
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The term is not derogatory as Twain/Huck would have understood or used it, despite its more modern horrible connotations. Many critive feel that Jim, even though a slave and called "N-word Jim," is the character who shows that most humanity in the book. Pay attention to the way Twain establishes Jim's personality. It is full of faults, ignorance, and superstition, as it is Huck's. Jim's character, however, is honorable, loyal, trustworthy, and trusting throughout the book, and it is only through Jim that Huck achieves maturity and an accurate understanding of slavery, his own and Jim's humanity, and a man's failings.
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obsequies
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funeral rites
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pensive
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deep in thought
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