The terms below are important in the study of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Seek to understand these terms, and consider their relevance to the novel. Some definitions are taken from Merriam-Webster Online and Glossary of Literary Terms.

1. verbal irony is when an author says one thing and means something else.

2. dramatic irony is when an audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.

3. irony of situation is a discrepency between the expected result and actual results.

1 : a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn

2 : trenchant wit, irony, or sarcasm used to expose and discredit vice or folly

1 : a thin sheet of a material: as a : a layer of wood of superior value or excellent grain to be glued to an inferior wood b : any of the thin layers bonded together to form plywood

2 : a protective or ornamental facing (as of brick or stone)

3 : a superficial or deceptively attractive appearance, display, or effect

1 : the front of a building; also : any face of a building given special architectural treatment (a museum's east facade)

2 : a false, superficial, or artificial appearance or effect

A device in literature where an object represents an idea.

A stereotyped character known by one or two salient characteristics. Examples include the nagging wife, the snobby aristocrat, the know-it-all, the villiage idiot, the travelling charlatan (you get the idea?).