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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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Plot: “Pretty soon he... it was Miss Watson’s Jim! I bet I was glad to see him. I says: ‘Hello, Jim!’ and skipped out.” (Twain 40)

“Who do you reckon ‘t is?” “I hain’t no idea. Who is it?” “It’s Tom Sawyer!” (Twain 203)

Point of View: “It didn’t take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn’t no kings nor dukes, at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds.” (Twain 115) “Well, I couldn’t see no advantage in going where she was going, so I made up my mind I wouldn’t try for it.” (Twain 6-7)

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Figurative Language: “I never see such an old ostrich for wanting to gobble everything-- and I a trusting you all the time, like you was my own father.” (Twain 189)

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