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Chapters 1-3: Well, after a long time I heard the clock away off in the town go boom boom boom twelve licks and all still again stiller than ever. (Pg.5, C1) The rhetorical device used is onomatopoeia. The above example shows the words boom three times. These are words that sound exactly like they are spelled, depicting the actual example of what the writer is trying to portray. This use of a word that describes its sound through its own pronunciation is called onomatopoeia. Heres Huck Finn, he haint got no family what you going to do bout him? (Pg.9, C2) The rhetorical device used is an antecedent. In the above example, him and he are words that are used to reference back to the main object of the sentence, which is Huck Finn. Instead of repeating Huck Finn multiple times, antecedents are used in place to add variety of diction to the sentence.

Chapters 4-6: Jim smelt it, and bit it, and rubbed it, and said he would manage so the hair-ball would think it was good. (Pg.18, C4) The rhetorical device used is polysyndeton. The multiple uses of and as conjunctions between words being listed off is Twains use of polysyndeton. He set there a-mumbling and a-growling a minute, and then he says (Pg.20, C5) The rhetorical device used is alliteration. The a- before mumbling and growling is said by Huck Finn because it is part of his vernacular diction, however, it also purposefully creates the repetition of the vowel sound a, causing an alliteration to form. With a-, and, a-, and another and, the patter for that lower case a sound is repeated a lot by Twain in this example.

Chapters 7-9: The widow she found out where I was, by-and-by, and she sent a man over to try

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to get hold of me, but pap drove him off with the gun, and it warnt long after that till I was used to being where I was, and I liked it, all but the cowhide part. (Pg.23, C6) The rhetorical device used is an expletive. Between the phrases the widow she found out where I was and and she sent a man over to try to get a hold of me, there is an expletive that says by-and-by, which is used to add colloquial effect to enhance the realistic setting that the author, Twain, is trying to portray. Doan hurt me dont! I haint ever done no hard to a ghos. I alwluz liked dead people, en done all I could for em. You go en git in de river agin, whah you blongs, en doan do nuffin to Ole Jim, at uz awluz yofren. (Pg.39, C9) The rhetorical device used is colloquial diction. This language is used throughout the book, most prominently through Jims dialogue. The misspellings of words are used so that the reader may interpret the words with the same meaning yet with a specifically different way to approach saying the actual word, giving each word a different cultural tone to fit the setting.

Chapters 10-12: Now trot along to your uncle, Sarah Mary Williams George Elexander Peters, and if you get into trouble you send word to Mrs. Judith Loftus, which is me, and Ill do what I can to get you out of it. (Pg.57, C11) The rhetorical device used is sarcasm. Sarcasm is used by the middle-aged woman who invites Huck in when he arrives in town late in the evening. Huck is aware that the whole townspeople and area believe that he has sided, so he aims to contain a fake identity, but forgets his own fake names so many times that he ends up giving multiple names to the woman when she questions him. She responds by calling Huck by all the multiple names that he has provided her with, to be sarcastic, because she knows that he really isnt any of those names. She simply prods with sarcasm to add a playful and humor effect. The fifth night we passed St. Louis, and it was like the whole world lit up. (Pg.60, C12) The rhetorical device used is a hyperbole. The whole world cannot actually light

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up, but by exaggerating the brightness of the city lights at nighttime, it portrays a mental image to the audience of how magnificent the sight really was.

Chapters 13-15: We went gliding swift along, dead silent, past the tip of the paddle-box, and past the stern; then in a second or two more we was a hundred yards below the wreck, and the darkness soaked her up, every last sign of her, and we was safe, and we knowed it. (Pg.66-67, C13) The rhetorical device used is a freight train sentence. The whole sentence has 8 technical parts and multiple independent and dependent clauses; however, it is grammatically correct in the way that Twain organizes them. This use of a freight train sentence is to accommodate the syntactical habits of Huck Finn, as he narrates long and complex sentence, being on an adolescent boy. I reckn I knows sense when I sees it; en dey ain no sense in sich doins as dat. (Pg.72, C14) The rhetorical device used is an antithesis. It is an antithesis because Jim states that he knows sense when he sees it, however, the following phrase is a contrasting statement that they have no sense.

Chapters 16-18: We both knowed well enough it was some more work of the rattlesnake skin; so what was the use to talk about it? (Pg.86, C16) The rhetorical device used is a rhetorical question. Huck Finn asks a rhetorical question here to justify the silence between himself and Jim, because they had been generally copasetic about the work of the rattlesnake skin. He does not actually require any answer, but instead he asks this question to give his own reasoning an effect. Oh you did, did you? (Pg.89, C17) The rhetorical device used is a chiasmus. This is a chiasmus, because the order of you did, did you is presented in the ab-ba format.

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Chapters 19-21: Not a sound, anywhere-perfectly still-just like the whole world was asleep, only sometimes the bullfrogs a-cluttering, maybe. (Pg.108, C19) The rhetorical device used is personification. This is personification because the whole world cannot be asleep, as the Earth is incapable of human characteristics such as sleeping; however, the scene had been so serene and still that it seemed as though the world had been asleep, giving an exaggerated description of the setting. Huck, does you reckn we gwyne to run acrost any mo kings on dis trip? (Pg.123, C20) The rhetorical device used is dramatic irony. This is dramatic irony, because as a narrator, Huck reveals to the audience that the kings are most likely fake and are simply con-artists, lying their way to make scandals moves and steal money. Jim, however, does not make this connection, and continues to be in awe at the status of the kings that have tagged along with them on their journey. This dramatically ironic situation adds to Jims character of being uneducated and dumb, because of his background of being a slave. It also emphasizes Hucks intelligence.

Chapters 22-24: Then there was a racket of ripping and tearing and smashing, and down she goes, and the front wall of the crowd begins to roll in like a wave. (Pg.133, C22) The rhetorical device used is polysyndeton with a simile. The polysyndeton exists within the simile that the crowd or people moved like a wave in the ocean, giving it a characteristic that compared to the visual flow-like motion of the ocean tides. The polysyndeton was the and between the clauses and subjects that were stated in the sentence. With multiple existing, Twain creates a synonymous emphasis on the ripping, tearing, and smashing caused by the racket. Next day, towards night, we laid up under a little willow tow-head out in the middle, where there was a village on each side of the river, and the duke and the

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king begun to lay out a plan for working them towns. (Pg.143, C24) The rhetorical device used is imagery. Hucks description of the setting and the position of exactly where he was at were so specific that one could imagine the scene themselves. This use of vivid detailing is called imagery.

Chapters 25-27: Well, when it come to that, it worked the crowd like you never seen anything like it, and so everybody broke down and went to sobbing right out loud poor girls, too; and every woman, nearly, went up to the girls, without saying a word, and kissed them, solemn, on the forehead, and then put their hand on their head, and looked up towards the sky, with the tears running down, and busted out and went off sobbing and swabbing, and give the next woman a show. I never seen anything so disgusting. (Pg.149-150, C25) The rhetorical device used is bathos. The whole text is a scene of sadness, building in seriousness and sorrow as the weeping carries on; however, the emotions that a reader would possibly feel from the seriousness of the text is dropped completely when Huck reacts saying that all the tears and sorrow made him disgusted. This sort of dramatic switch in tone is called bathos. Alright, doctor, well try and get em to send for you. (Pg.192, C14) The rhetorical device used is verbal irony. After the doctor claims that the king is a fraud and isnt really Mary Janes uncle, the king responds by saying, Alright, doctor, well try and get em to send for you as a sign of mockery, because no one else believes the doctor either. This use of sarcasm was used to taught the doctor and to create a bluff and sense of ethos that the king had indeed been Mary Janes uncle.

Chapters 28-30: she throws her arms around my neck, and told me to say it again, say it again, say it again! (Pg.169, C28) The rhetorical device used is an asyndeton. The above example shows asyndeton

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because there is a lack of conjunctions between the clauses and ideas, even though the idea is a single idea that is repeated. Twain does this to emphasize the idea of repetition, that say it again is as recurring as leaving out a conjunction. Its well for you to set there and blubber like a baby - after the way you acted. (Pg.188, C30) The rhetorical device used is a simile. The above example is a simile because it describes a character likewise to a baby in terms of how he blubbers. The use of like to compare one thing to the subject is a simile.

Chapters 31-33: Maybe theres something aint straight about it. But it is though straight as a string. (Pg.191, C31) The rhetorical device used is a simile. The above example is a simile because the straightness of the situation was compared to the physical straightness of a string through the words as a, qualifying it as a simile. Its Tom Sawyer! (Pg.201, C32) The rhetorical device used is dramatic irony. This exclamation that Huck Finn is Tom Sawyer serves as dramatic irony, because while Huck arrives to the new town and is greeted by a woman, the woman mistakes Huck for Tom, whom she was actually expected to arrive. The audience, however, knows that the woman made a mistake, and knows who Huck really is. This sense of knowing more than the characters do is called dramatic irony.

Chapters 34-36: Its as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row (Pg.211, C34) The rhetorical device used is assonance. This example is assonance, because tittat-toe rhymes with three-in-a-roe. The rhyming of toe and row is the use of assonance, the repetition of vowel sounds.

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The nigger Nat he only just hollered... (Pg.224, C36) The rhetorical device used is an epithet. The nigger Nat is an epithet because Nat is qualified and described by his title of the nigger, which is his epithet.

Chapters 37-39: My heart fell down among my lungs and liver and things... (Pg.226, C37) The rhetorical device used is a hyperbole. This example is a hyperbole, because while his heart did not literally fall down in his body, he felt an emotion burden of tenseness when Aunt Sally had come to him and Tom, cross, angry, and scolding. This exaggeration of his emotional state is called a hyperbole. 1. Here a captive heart busted. 2. Here a poor prisoner, forsook by the world and friends, fretted out his sorrowful life. 3. Here a lonely heart broke, and a worn spirit went to its rest, after thirty-seven years of solitary captivity. 4. Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV. (Pg.233, C38) The rhetorical device used is an anaphora. This example is an anaphora because in the list, it begins each phrase with here, to keep the format and organization of the list as uniform as possible. This stylistic use of repetition is called an anaphora. Chapters 40-42: The niggers crazy crazys Nebokoodneezer. (Pg.251, C41) The rhetorical device used is an allusion. This is an allusion to the Biblical contexts of the Babylonian King Nebakanezer, who was at fault for the fall of Babylon in ancient Biblical stories. The comparison of the nigger to King Nebakanezer (misspelled purposely in the story) is made to emphasize the oddity of the niggers characteristics, as King Nebakanezer was crazy himself. But Tom, he was so proud and joyful, he just couldnt hold in, and his tongue just went it she a-chipping in, and spitting fire all along, and both of them going it at once, like a cat-convention. (Pg.258, C42)

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The rhetorical device used is a simile. This example is a simile because Tom and Aunt Sally had argued so furiously that it was like a cat-convention. The use of like to compare one idea to another qualifies it as a simile.