1. “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calavaras County” By Mark Twain

2. Mark Twain  Real name was Samuel Clemens  His pen name (“Mark Twain”) was a signal yelled out by riverboat pilots- connected him to his youth on the Mississippi River  Wrote about American themes using the American English people actually spoke and dirt-poor heroes  Deaths of his wife and daughters left him bitter and cynical  His writing began to depict a pessimistic view of society and human nature (p. 562)

3. What is a FRAME NARRATIVE? In a nutshell, a frame narrative is a “story within a story.”  Shorter Story Story

4. Examples of FRAME NARRATIVES... Titanic – (the movie) The story of “Old Rose” revisiting the site of the Titanic “bookends” the love story of Jack and “Young Rose” onboard the ship in 1912. Forrest Gump – Forrest (in the present) is telling his life story (of Forrest in the past) to various citizens on the park bench. Can you think of any others?

5. Local Color and Regional Dialect Regional DialectEx. “Thish-yer” Standard English Ex. This here Local Color- the use in a literary work of characters and details unique to a particular geographic area Regional Dialect- language specific to a particular area of the country

6. Animals

7. Literary terms TermDefinitionExample from Story Characterization act of creating and developing a character Point of view perspective from which a story is told Personification a nonhuman subject is given human characteristics Simile comparison using like or as Stereotype thought that may be adopted about specific types of individuals or certain ways of doing things Satire Writing that ridicules or critizes