Frog Figurative Language

In the story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” Mark Twain incorporates the use of informal, slang, and uneducated diction. Twain uses this type of diction to describe the character, Jim Smiley; furthermore, it also give the reader a conclusion of when and where the story takes place. This also helps develop a persona of Jim Smiley and gives the reader an insight of the western setting.

In the story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, the use of diction provides differences upon the certain class of characters. The text consist of three characters as the narrator looks for someone known as Smiley. He comes across a man by the name of Simon Wheeler and is caught in his story of another man by the name of Smiley which provides a story within a story. As clear of a difference as black and white, the diction of the narrator is more profound and well educated than other characters is this humorous fiction piece. The differences is the use of diction is a bit extreme, providing a possible time era and a separation in educational class.

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 behave is very distinctive. Dialect is also used to give the reader a convincing impression of the setting in "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". The social status of the main characters in this story also was something that

In the story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Lake”By Mark Twain. Mark uses several literary devices to form a well fit story. One of the literary devices that mark used is conflict. This device helps develop the main problem of the story. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras Lake” is about a man named Jim Smiley with his frog who insists that his frog could outjump any other frog in calaveras county.

Frog of Calaveras County”, both written by Mark Twain have many similarities in the form of

Mark Twain’s “ The Celebrated Jumps Frog of Calaveras County” created a lot of figurative language using his details that structured the folktale. The author Mark Twain gots the readers a real feel of the 1800’s with the figurative language he used in the story, it really gives the readers a visual of the setting and the events that are occurring throughout the whole story. Twain was incorporating the imagery using the figurative language he was using which keeps the readers engaged in his folktale. An good example of him painting a image in the reader's mind using figurative language is from his story “ The celebrated Jumps Frog” is the line when he says “ He was a different dog; his underjaw’d begin to stick out like to castle of a stream boat and his teeth would uncover, and shine savage like the furnaces.” Twain used this figurative language to describe the way the character Jim Smiley's dog main features of the dog so the reader can have more details and be more knowledgeable of the features the dog has instead of just saying “ it was an ugly dog”. Using the figurative language made it more interesting for the reader to read by incorporating the figurative language really gives the readers great imagery.

In Mark Twain's Story, The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, there are plenty of ideas presented that are implausible. Using implausibility played a large role in Twain's humor throughout his writing. This was especially the case in the passage about Jim Smiley's betting frog. He believed the frog was the most talented and intelligent frog to ever be in existence. It was full of exaggerations and the seemingly impossible that made it perfect to be in a tall tale. Twain uses implausibility to create humor in his tall tale by taking a regular story and adding events that cannot actually happen.

Using imagery throughout the poem, the author portrays what the speaker is feeling while watching the death of the toad take place before his eyes. The first example of this is when the toad first got his leg cut off by the lawnmower, as depicted with “chewed and clipped.” The harshness and cleverness of the use of the image depicts the brutality of the injury that the toad is suffering. The detailed and tragic image given in the second stanza of the final breaths of the toad evokes more pity from the reader, as they have to watch this toad suffer.

Adding on his descriptions, Twain’s satirical tone towards the topic made it possible for him to convey his true emotions regarding the actions of prominent citizens and his use of figurative language greatly helped the readers to understand what he is trying to achieve. Twain’s descriptions was consisted of satirical comments, such as when he describe a woman who was “washing a naked child”, who “ran down to the street, holding it by the ankles”, which seemed like “if it were a dressed turkey”. Twain’s tone towards the woman was negative, which represents his emotion that the prominent citizen that was supposed to be elegant, was taking care of a child like she has no experience. His tone shifts from objective to a negative tone, which showed

In “The Celebrated Jumping Frog,” Mark Twain does a really good job at conveying the humor through the hyperboles used as exaggeration, irony in the twist at the end

“The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras” was written by Mark Twain in 1867. This story uses a style of writing, called ‘Local Color Writing’, to add personality to the story. Local color writing is when the storyteller uses characters, dialect, and customs from a specific region. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” uses a more southern, backwoods style of local color writing. A few examples of this are how the story is written in southern slang, the names of some of the characters, and how the characters speak. One of my favorite pieces of this story’s color writing is as follows; “Thish-yer Smiley had a mare the boys called her the fifteen- minute nag, but that was only in fun, you know, because, of course, she was faster than

The lyrics to a song called The Monster by Eminem are different than the lyrics to any other rap that I have heard. This song is about the writers’ fame, and how he sometimes struggles and becomes angry at it. The speaker of The Monster is “I”, which we know is the author, Eminem. This means that the point of view of this poem is first person.

In the story "frog" Mark Twain uses implausibility as a key component to his humor. Implausibility is something that is unbelievable and impossible. Twain uses this very often and there are many examples. He does this through the events that occur in the story. By using implausibility he has a wider range of what he can put into his story.

One writing that Mark Twain is not as famous for, but is still a well known piece of work for showing the use of humor in his writings is, “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”. This work starts off slow without much humor until later on in the writing. The humor picks up as Twain includes bits of sarcasm to the mix. The humor in this short work is not so hidden or subtle as it may have been in some of Twain’s other writings. One example of this sort of dry humor is, “And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, ‘It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't it's only just a frog.’” (Jumping Frog). This shows a side and type of writing that is not usually seen with Twain. Usually the humor in his writings was always sort of hidden away and harder to pick out, but in this work, it is more obvious that he is trying to make it humorous. “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” may not be as widely known as some of Twain’s other work, but it is a good example of how he includes humor into his writings to catch the reader’s attention and to provide some comic relief from, at times, tense situations.

Throughout Life On The Mississippi and The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County the authors show many instances of how the authors wanted things in literature to be perceived as how they really were instead of being described as how they made someone feel or being dark about their description. While reading Life On The Mississippi Twain talks about how the captain of the boat was describing mile marker on the river and he says “they all looked about alike to me; they were monotonously unpicturesque.” (Twain 2). This quote shows that the captain was describing these objects as they were meaningful to himself as Twain just saw the objects as what they were to him, just objects. This section of the text explains how writers were going to a form of