The Grangerfords and Shepherdsons cannot say how the feud began, but they keep killing one another. What social habit is Twain satirizing?

The feuding families bring guns to church and praise a sermon about brotherly love. Where is the satire aimed?

Pap attacks the government because an educated free Black man can vote, while Pap is drunk, abusive, and ignorant. What is Twain attacking?

Aunt Sally treats a steamboat explosion as hurting no one once she hears only an enslaved Black man was killed. What is exposed?

Huck admires Emmeline Grangerford's gloomy poems and memorial pictures. What taste is being mocked?

Tom Sawyer makes Jim's escape harder by adding tunnels, inscriptions, snakes, and other bookish details. What is Twain satirizing?

At the camp meeting, the king pretends to be a repentant pirate and collects money. What public behavior is targeted?

Huck tests Miss Watson's lesson on prayer by asking for fishing gear and finding it does not work. What does the reader see beyond Huck?

When Huck says, "All right, then, I'll go to hell," for helping Jim, where is the dramatic irony?

Huck reports the Grangerford house and Emmeline's art with admiration. Why is his limited narration ironic?

After the duke and king join the raft, Huck keeps using royal language though their behavior reveals fraud. What is the irony?

Huck thinks Tom's escape plan is impressive because it is complicated. What does the reader understand instead?

Huck worries that helping Jim means stealing property from Miss Watson. What does the reader see that Huck's society has hidden from him?

The duke claims to be a duke, and the king soon claims to be the lost Dauphin. What does their raft performance show?

After the first night of The Royal Nonesuch, cheated men send the rest of the town to the show. What keeps the fraud going?

The duke and king pass as Peter Wilks's brothers by weeping, using family names, and copying details. What makes the town vulnerable?

The duke stitches together a garbled Hamlet soliloquy from half-remembered lines, and the king performs it while Huck finds it beautiful. What does the scene mock?

The duke prints a handbill about Jim as a runaway so the group can travel by day. What power does the fake paper have?

After the fog trick, Huck apologizes to Jim even though he has been taught that Jim is beneath him. What reversal matters?

Huck writes to Miss Watson about Jim, then tears up the letter. What moral conflict reaches its turning point?

Huck lies to slave hunters by implying disease is on the raft, and the lie protects Jim. What is ironic about the scene?

With Mary Jane Wilks, Huck finally tells the truth about the duke and king. What reversal does this create?

A new judge is sure he has reformed Pap after a signed pledge and a fine bed, but that same night Pap sells his new coat for whiskey and breaks his arm falling off the roof drunk. What does the comic tone mock?

Buck casually explains the feud as if shooting neighbors were ordinary. How does the comic tone work?

During Tom's escape scheme, ordinary objects like spoons, sheets, rats, and snakes become "necessary" prison tools. What does the deadpan listing expose?