Eng 4.1

In order to win his dog fights, Andrew Jackson

holds the other dog's hind leg.

According to Wheeler, Dan'l Webster can do which of the following better than any other frog?

jump distances

A person who is garrulous is

long winded and talkative.

Infamous has a

negative connotation of having a bad reputation.

A tranquil feeling is

peaceful.

If a person is enterprising they are

resourceful.

If something is dilapidated it is

rundown.

When the narrator attempts to leave once Wheeler is out of the room suggests that

the narrator believes Wheeler will never stop talking.

Another word for indifferent is

uninterested.

What does the narrator suspect about Leonidas W. Smiley?

He is a made-up person.

Which of the following is an example of hyperbole?

Wheeler saying that Smiley will follow a bug to Mexico

Dialect is used with the term "bannanner" in the following statement from line 200. "Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yaller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only just a short stump like a bannanner, and -" You can use context clues to determine the meaning of "bannanner" as a

banana.

How does the dialect of the following excerpt describe the bull-pup? "his underjaw'd begin to stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces"

eager to win the fight and money

How long did Smiley "educate" his frog?

3 months

Which of the following phrases is an understatement that describes Dan'l Webster?

A frog needs only an education to do anything.