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    and 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

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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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    A Puzzle on Leap Frog Jumping (With a surprising result) By N.D.Prabhakar Board: Men placed at grid points • A jump move involves two adjacent pieces (men) along same row or same column • No cross-wise jump • After a jump‚ the man must land on a vacant position‚ and the man who is jumped over gets removed from the board • A piece can jump over only one piece in one move Red ‚ Yellow and Violet pieces can not jump Green can jump right over blue Blue can jump left over green Blue can jump

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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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    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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    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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    “The celebrated jumping frog of Calaveras County” is a Realism story about a man named Jim smiley that loved betting on everything. He would bet on anything and everything‚ from horse races to dogfights‚ to the life of the local parson’s wife. But one day he learns that betting is not always the best idea. But what makes this a realism story? What clues or indications does this story give to know that it is a realism story? Some of the characteristics are that this is a comical and satirical story

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    II Introduction to Mark Twain and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaverous Country 2.1 Introduction to Mark Twain Mark Twain‚pseudonym of Samuel Langhorne Clamens‚is one of the most outstanding humorists in American literature history‚whose best works are characterized by broad‚often irreverent humor or biting social satire.His works are also known for realism of place and language‚memorable characters‚and hatred of hypocrisy and oppression. Mark Twain neglected or bypassed the harshness

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    English Long Test The literary texts from the Era of Expansion‚ namely The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain and The Baron of Grogzwig by Charles Dickens have evoked a humorous response from the audience and the readers. They had used various literary techniques to achieve and to get these kind of responses. In Twain’s story‚ one of the literary texts he used was symbolism‚ the usage of famous political personalities such as Andrew Jackson and Daniel Webster as animals in

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