While Mark Twain's imagination takes center stage in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and creates a world in which his characters are caught in implausible circumstances and situations, it nevertheless should not lose any credibility of its realism and of how things truly were in the Old South during slavery. ... House to his adventurous holdover with Tom Sawyer and Jim at Aunt Sally's place - Twain takes you on an emotional roller coaster ride that throughout gives a number of opportunities to question the amount of realism involved. ... Twain uses Huck's friendship with Jim ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Analysis The Adventures of Tom Sawyer was written by Samuel Clemens, or better known as Mark Twain. ... Under the pen name Mark Twain, Sam Clemens published over 30 works of literature--encompassing satire, historical fiction, short stories, and nonfiction. ... In the book, Twain uses such forms of figurative language as metaphors, similes, onomatopoeia, personification, imagery, realism, and more. ... Examples of realism can be used in the same category as Twain's imagery, as he described the settings as they appeared to him in his lifetime. ... I would highly recommend th...

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• Grade Level: High School