SatireIn The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn Huckleberry Finn

Caricature A caricature is an extreme exaggeration of a character, either through literature or through drawing. Huckleberry Finn uses the literary types of caricature in his descriptions of main characters.

Jim is a great example of a caricature. Throughout the entire novel, Huck makes the audience picture Jim as a stupid black man, which was stereotypical for that period of time. It is a form of caricature because it greatly exaggerates Jim.

Pap is also a good example of a caricature. From what Huck describes him as, we visualize a hairy very scary looking older man. Huck makes him look like a crazy person, through his words and his appearance. When Huck tells about Pap being drunk in the cabin and ranting about blacks, politics and the government, we assume him to be insane.

Juxtaposition Huck and Finn are an example of Juxtaposition in themselves. Huck is white. Jim is black. Throughout the book we see how they are treated very differently just because of their races. Juxtaposition: the arrangement of two or more characters, ideas or words side-by-side for the purpose of comparison, contrast, or character development

“Well, den! Dad blame it, why doan’ he talk like a man? You answer me dat!” I see it warn’t no use wasting words-you can’t learn a nigger to argue. So I quit.” A scene in Huckleberry Finn that shows the art of juxtaposition very clearly would be when Jim and Huck are discussing the French language. A very humorous situation emerges when Huck begins comparing a Frenchman speaking French to a cat meowing. This entire scene is solely purposed to make Jim look very stupid, and make Huck look wise.

Parody Parody: poking fun at something by mimicking or imitating it The King and Duke make a huge parody out of all of Shakespeare’s works during their performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.

It has been said in history that The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn are merely a parody of Don Quixote. Tom is apparently a representation of Don. The website I have below goes into much detail on that topic.

Hyperbole is an extreme over-exaggeration, such as freaking out over a certain issue. Hyperbole

“Tom’s most well, now, and got his bullet around his neck on a watch- guard for a watch, and is always seeing what time it is, and so there ain’t nothing more to write about, and I am rotten glad of it, because if I’d a knowed what a trouble it was to make a book I wouldn’t a tackled it and ain’t agoing to no more. But I reckon I got to light out for the territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she’s going to adopt me and sivilize me and I can’t stand it. I been there before.”

Understatement Mark Twain is famous for using understatements. An understatement is A figure of speech in which a writer or a speaker deliberately makes a situation seem less important than it is "A soiled baby, with a neglected nose, cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.“ -Mark Twain

“It warn’t the grounding-that didn’t keep us back but a little. We blowed out a cylinder-head.” “Good gracious! Anybody hurt?” “No’m. Killed a nigger.” This is an example of understatement in Huck Finn. Even though obviously a man is dead, his death is an understatement solely because he was black.

“But by-and-by pap got too handy with his hickory, and I couldn't stand it. I was all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in. Once he locked me in and was gone three days. It was dreadful lonesome. I judged he had got drowned and I wasn't ever going to get out anymore. I got scared.”