1. Mark Twain “THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY”

2.  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) MARK TWAIN

3.  A man from the East comes to a western mining town.  At the request of a friend, the narrator speaks with Simon Wheeler in order to ask after a man named Leonidas W. Smiley.  Instead of giving the narrator the information that he asks for, Wheeler launches into a tall tale about a man named Jim Smiley. “THE NOTORIOUS JUMPING FROG OF CALAVERAS COUNTY”

4.  Frame narrative: a story within a story  Ex: Titanic and Forest Gump  Regional dialect: The language peculiar to the members of a group; distinguishable from standard language- characterized by grammar, pronunciation, or vocabulary  Ex: Y’all, youse, you guys  http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2013/12/20/sunday- review/dialect-quiz-map.html LITERARY TERMS