| A | B |
|---|
| is an adolescent who is the main character of the story | Tom Sawyer |
| has a lively personality, strong feelings, a vivid imagination, and a love of adventure | Tom Sawyer |
| has a happy nature but feels melancholy when Aunt Polly reprimands him and Becky rejects him | Tom Sawyer |
| is fair-minded, noble, resourceful, and is considered a leader by his peers | Tom Sawyer |
| rebels against authority and the restrictions of society and plays pranks on the people of the town | Tom Sawyer |
| has resorted to lying, stealing, playing hooky, and fighting, but not as a matter of habit | Tom Sawyer |
| is an avid reader, but dislikes school | Tom Sawyer |
| matures from thinking only of himself to thinking about and taking responsibility for others | Tom Sawyer |
| is Tom's tender-hearted aunt and guardian | Aunt Polly |
| is full of life and has a sharp and sometimes witty tongue | Aunt Polly |
| is simple and kind and respected in the community | Aunt Polly |
| quotes Scripture and considers herself to be deeply religious | Aunt Polly |
| loves Tom and wonders whether she is capable of bringing him up properly | Aunt Polly |
| can put up with Tom's pranks as long as she knows that he loves her | Aunt Polly |
| is Tom's cousin and a member of Aunt Polly's household | Mary |
| loves and cares for Tom | Mary |
| is Tom's half-brother and Aunt Polly's ward | Sidney |
| is considered one of the model boys in the community | Sidney |
| tattles on Tom whenever he can | Sidney |
| alsways seems to do the right thing, does his chores, obeys his elders, never plays hooky, and behaves in church | Sidney |
| in reality is sneaky, manipulative, and jealous of Tom | Sidney |
| is a homeless boy who has been abandoned by his father, the town drunkard | Huck |
| sleelps on doorsteps or in hogsheads and finds food wherever he can | Huck |
| wears discarded adult clothes, which are too big for him, and seldom bathes | Huck |
| is free of the restraints of society and does what he pleases | Huck |
| is perceived as a threat by the mothers of the town, who refuse to allow their children to associate with him | Huck |
| is Tom's "streetwise" and superstitious friend | Huck |
| has no wish to better himself and is satisfied with his simple life | Huck |
| grows by realizing that he is more dependent on society than he thought and proves to be courageous | Huck |
| is Tom's pretty and intelligent sweetheart | Becky |
| is the daughter of Judge Thatcher, the head of a prominent local family | Becky |
| is sensitive, honest, and lovable, but can be self-centered, stubborn, and spiteful at times | Becky |
| proves to be brave, caring, and trusting of Tom | Becky |
| is Tom's closest respectable friend | Joe Harper |
| has a background similar to Tom's and has similar attitudes and values | Joe Harper |
| is mischievous but kind-hearted | Joe Harper |
| usually follows Tom's lead | Joe Harper |
| is a ne're-do-well and one of the town's drunkards | Muff Potter |
| has a weak character and is easily led, but is generally harmless | Muff Potter |
| is not bright and is made to believe by Injun Joe that he murdered Dr. Robinson | Muff Potter |
| is a sinister figure who murders, steals, and plots revenge | Injun Joe |
| is a clever, ruthless, and formidable adversary | Injun Joe |
| seems to have no conscience | Injun Joe |
| is the widow of a justice of the peace | Widow Douglas |
| is a wealthy and generous person who likes to entertain her friends | Widow Douglas |
| has a kind heart and befriends Huck | Widow Douglas |
| leads a regulated life in which meals, prayers, and sleep are carried out on schedule | Widow Douglas |
| is known as the Welshman | Mr. Jones |
| is the neighbor of the Widow Douglas | Mr. Jones |
| lives with two sons | Mr. Jones |
| demonstrates his bravery when he is faced with danger | Mr. Jones |
| has a strong sense of justice tempered by kindness, compassion, and honesty | Mr. Jones |
| is the public schoolmaster | Mr. Dobbins |
| wants to be a doctor and is bored with teaching | Mr. Dobbins |
| is a cruel man who never misses an opportunity to punish his students | Mr. Dobbins |
| anatomy | the study of the body |
| apprehensively | cautiously |
| beguiled | tricked, misled |
| despair | hopelessness |
| loathe | to hate |
| perplexed | confused |
| reluctance | hesitation |
| turmoil | uproar |
| wily | sly |
| 2 fathoms | 12 feet deep |
| Twain was born in | Florida, Missouri |
| Twain was 11 | when his father died |
| Twain became a printer's apprentice | at age 13 |
| Mark Twain | print shop, writer, reporter, miner, steamboat pilot, wrote for magazine |
| 1870 | Married Olivia Langdon |
| 1910 | Died |
| What was life in 1876 like? | Industries, factories, large cities, railroads |
| What was city life like? | Hurried, busy Surrounded by noise, smokestacks, streetcars, etc. |
| What was small-town life like? | Simplicity, Farming communities, Friendly people |
| idyll | a remembrance of simple, peaceful, and innocent country life, often by a person who now lives in the city. |
| good qualities of St. Petersburg | Nostalgic, Seemed to always be summer, Quiet, relaxed |
| evil qualities of St. Petersburg | Social class divisions, Slavery, Alcoholism, Homelessness |
| Hannibal | 80 miles north of St. Louis |
| the action of the novel | 1840's |
| Missouri allowed | slavery |
| satire | the use of irony, sarcasm, ridicule, or the like, in exposing, denouncing, or deriding vice, folly, etc. |
| satire | iterary composition, in verse or prose, in which human folly and vice are held up to scorn, derision, or ridicule. |
| Twain hated about society | cruelty, its hypocrisy, its greed, and its ignorance |
| Twain satirizes the ignorance and cruelty of small-town schoolteachers in the character of | Dobbins |
| parody | humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing |
| parody | genre of literary composition represented by such imitations |
| Tom's greatest strength | imagination |
| climax | crisis |
| climax | turning point |
| climax | The highest point of intensity of the novel |
| foreshadowing | clues planted by an author that point to events to come—to prepare the reader for the change in mood |
| irony | a contrast between reality and what seems to be real |
| apprehension | worry |
| chronic | permanent, long-term |
| Conspicuous | obvious |
| frivolous | not serious |
| Notoriety | fame |
| ominous | threatening |
| repentant | sorry, apologetic |
| vindictive | keen for revenge |
| 1885 | Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
| 1894 | Tom Sawyer Abroad |
| 1896 | Tom Sawyer, Detective |
| apathy | lack of interest |
| boundless | without limits |
| insignificance | lack of importance |
| insipid | uninteresting |
| sentry | guard |
| subdued | quiet |
| tedious | boring |
| threadbare | poor, worn out |
| windfall | unexpected gain |
