The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County
What does the narrator suspect about Leonidas W. Smiley?
He is a made-up person
What does the narrator's attempt to leave when Wheeler is out of the room suggest?
He thinks that Wheeler won't stop talking
When Smiley bets on the Parson's wife not getting well, what does this demonstrate?
Smiley would bet "on anything that turned up you ever see"
How does Smiley's mare make him "uncommon lucky"?
The excited mare wins in spite of her illnesses.
What does Andrew Jackson, the bull-pup, do to win his dog fights?
holds on to the other dogs back leg
"He'd follow a bug to Mexico." Of what literary term is this quote an example.
hyperbole
How is this story an example of a tall tale?
It uses understatement when it says that a frog only needs an education to learn something
What does Wheeler say that Dan'l Webster can do better than any other frog?
jump distances
Find examples of dialect in the following quotes. "Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yaller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only just a short stump like a bannanner..." "His underjaw'd begin to stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat and his teeth would uncover and shine like the furnaces"
thish-yer, yaller, bannanner, underjaw'd, fo'castle
