Mark Twain: "The Celebrated Jumping Frog..." - Read

Question 1

note

Answer 1

• setting (location of a story)
• characterization (the way in which an author paints/’portrays their characters)
• symbolism (using an item/object to represent something else)
• allegory (referring to actual historic events/people)
• foreshadowing (giving a hint about what’s to come)
• simile (comparison using “like” or “as”)

Question 2

in the following passage from paragraph 9 of “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county,” mark twain uses what figure of speech?
He’d give him a little punch behind, and the next minute you’d see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut see him turn one summerset, or may be a couple, if he got a good start…

Answer 2

simile

Question 3

according to simon wheeler in twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county,” Jim smiley’s dog, andrew jackson, lost his last dog fight because his opponent

Answer 3

had no hind legs for him to grab hold of

Question 4

what figure of speech does mark twain use in the following excerpt from paragraph 7 of “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county”?
… his underjaw’d begin to stick out like the fo’castle of a steamboat…

Answer 4

simile

Question 5

in his description of jim smiley’s yellow cow in “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county,” simon wheeler uses what literary device

Answer 5

simile

Question 6

the narrator of mark twain’s “the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county” suspects the leonidas w. smiley - whom he was sent to inquire after - is

Answer 6

a myth concocted by his friend as a practical joke