Course: American Literature Instructor: Professor Yang Name: HouZhen jun Class: 13011202 Student Number: 2012303125 Date: June 24th‚ 2015 Analysis of the Implication in The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is a short story written by Mark Twain and takes place in the ancient mining camp of Angel’s. After reading it‚ I am deeply impressed by the main character‚ Jim Smiley who loved to make bets‚ and always created miraculous gambling events
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In Mark Twain’s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County‚” he used many‚ obvious literary devices. He used a frame layout for his story‚ his story was a tall tale‚ and he used many examples of regional dialect throughout the entire story. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County‚” was written as a tall tale. A tall tale is a story that is much exaggerated. Mark Twain used this style of writing because his story was funnier this way. In his story‚ Jim Smiley trained animals to be
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author of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras” is a story about a character named Jim Smiley. Jim was the curioest man he would almost always bet on anything. Jim had a caught a frog and for three months he taught the frog to jump to immense heights. One day he decided to go into town to find someone to bet that his frog can out jump any frog in the county. When he found someone he went out to search for a frog for his opponent‚ while he was gone the stranger gave Jim’s frog a shot full of quail
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exaggeration. Combining these two forms of writing or literature increases the interest of the story as well as the humor. Mr.Twain switches the two every so often‚ which never leaves the reader bored or uninterested.Within the story of The Jumping Frog of Calaveras County‚ it is literally a story about nothing‚ but the reader does not realize‚ because of the regional dialects of the different places which adds to the humorous portion of the text due to the way the characters speak. We see examples of this
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minor‚ hoping to learn his whereabouts. However‚ Simon relates a complex story of a different man‚ Jim Smiley‚ who was a creative gambler who once took his time to train a frog named Daniel Webster to jump and won money on betting on on the frog. The literary Analysis of Mark Twain “The celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county‚ the tone is is exaggeration . The narrator starts by telling what will take place for him if he asks of Simon wheeler on behalf of his friend . He talks about Wheeler‚ “and
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Twain’s Humor In "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain‚ there is a definite structure to each layout of events. This blueprint consists of events and the use of literary devices‚ which bring to light the events of the story. The use of events and literary devices throughout the story is instrumental in relaying the implausibility that shapes humor created by Twain. In "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County"‚ the events of the story reveal the idea that Simon’s
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Use of Customs‚ Dialect and Social Status In "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" Mark Twain’s "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is a short story with the lesson that what goes around comes around. In this short story‚ which first appeared in 1856 and his first successful story‚ Twain uses local customs of the time‚ dialect‚ and examples of social status in his story to create a realistic view of the region in which the story takes place. The way that the characters
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In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County”; Mark Twain writes about a man named Simon Wheeler‚ who tells the story of infamous gambler Jim Smiley.Throughout the text several tone shifts can be found that portray different emotions and paints vivid pictures in order to keep the reader interested. In the first paragraph the narrator implies that his friend may have tricked him into hearing Wheelers mindless babble about Jim Smiley.”If I asked Wheeler about him it would remind him of the
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In Mark Twain’s famous short story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calvary County" the author receives a letter that tells him to inquire information about a man named Leonidas W. Smiley. He finds a man by the name of Simon Wheeler and is told the stories of Smiley. As he listens to the stories that Simon Wheeler tells he realizes that fry little of the stories could be true. To make this short story humorous Mark Twain uses many literary devices and techniques; however‚ three essential ones are
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In “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”‚ Mark Twain specifically uses this story to describe people. In this story‚ he uses details about people. If someone pronounces something different‚ he spells the word with how they pronounced it. Twain’s character‚ Simon Wheeler‚ uses pronunciation this way. Twain uses a lot of details to describe the characters. Simon is “fat and baldheaded” and another character‚ Jim Smiley‚ is “always betting on anything”. All the main characters are described
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