The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Exam Review By: Eugenio Gonzalez, Alfredo Melero

Instructions The class will be divided into 6 groups (by row). The class will be divided into 6 groups (by row). You will be shown an excerpt, quote or phrase from the story, and you have to identify the literary term being used. You will be shown an excerpt, quote or phrase from the story, and you have to identify the literary term being used. You may answer after we finish reading the phrase or quote. You may answer after we finish reading the phrase or quote. The first one to raise their hand will be chosen and may answer. The first one to raise their hand will be chosen and may answer. Good luck. Good luck.

First, you must know the literary terms… Anecdote: A very brief story, told to illustrate a point or serve as an example of something. Anthropomorphism: Attributing human characteristics to an animal or inanimate object. Dialect: A way of speaking that is characteristic of a certain social group or of the inhabitants of a certain geographical area. Frame story: A literary device in which a story is enclosed in another story, a tale within a tale. Hyperbole: A figure of speech that uses an incredible exaggeration, or overstatement, for effect.

Incongruity: The deliberate joining of opposites or of elements that are not appropriate to each others. Psychoanalysis: A method of examining the unconscious mind, developed primarily by the Austrian physician Sigmund Freud. Tall tale: An outrageously exaggerated, humorous story that is obviously unbelievable. Vernacular: The language spoken by the people who live in a particular locality

“…bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence…” “But all through the interminable narrative..” “…bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence…” “But all through the interminable narrative..” a. Frame story b. Psychoanalysis c. Tall tale d. Dialect e. Hyperbole

Answer: Hyperbole

“Parson Walker’s wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn’t going to save her…” “Parson Walker’s wife laid very sick once, for a good while, and it seemed as if they warn’t going to save her…” a. Tall tale b. Anecdote c. Psychoanalysis d. Vernacular e. Hyperbole

Answer: Anecdote

“ I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw’d off for-I wonder if there an’t something the matter with him” “ I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw’d off for-I wonder if there an’t something the matter with him” a. Hyperbole b. Dialect c. Psychoanalysis d. Anecdote e. Anthropomorphism

Answer Psychoanalysis

“…the end of the race she’d get excited and desperate-like…” “…the end of the race she’d get excited and desperate-like…” “…and raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose…” “…and raising more racket with her coughing and sneezing and blowing her nose…” a. Incongruity b. Frame story c. Anthropomorphism d. Anecdote e. A and D

Answer Anthropomorphism

“…prized his mouth open and took a tea-spoon and filled him full of quail shot- filled him pretty near up to his chin…” “…prized his mouth open and took a tea-spoon and filled him full of quail shot- filled him pretty near up to his chin…” a. Anthropomorphism b. Frame story c. Tall tale d. Hyperbole e. None of the above

Answer Tall tale

“ He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’klated to edercate him…” “ He ketched a frog one day, and took him home, and said he cal’klated to edercate him…” a. Anecdote b. Hyperbole c. Tall tale d. Frame story e. A and E

Answer A and E

“But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner.” “But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner.” a. Incongruity b. Vernacular c. Hyperbole d. Anthropomorphism e. Anecdote

Answer Vernacular

“…there couldn’t be no solit’ry thing mentioned but that feller’d offer to bet on it…” “…there couldn’t be no solit’ry thing mentioned but that feller’d offer to bet on it…” a. Dialect b. Frame story c. Incongruity d. Anthropomorphism e. None of the above

Answer Dialect

“…that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut-see him turn one summerset, or maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat.” “…that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut-see him turn one summerset, or maybe a couple, if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat.” a. Incongruity b. Hyperbole c. Frame story d. Anecdote e. A and B

Answer A and B