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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Mark Twain. Scavenger Hunt. With a partner find . . . 2 similes 1 metaphor 2 allusion examples Regional Dialect (1 of each) Misspelling Grammatical Errors Inventive Punctuation Loose sentence structure Colloquial Phrase.

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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

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  1. The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Mark Twain

  2. Scavenger Hunt With a partner find . . . • 2 similes • 1 metaphor • 2 allusion examples • Regional Dialect (1 of each) • Misspelling • Grammatical Errors • Inventive Punctuation • Loose sentence structure • Colloquial Phrase LABEL EACH WITH HEADINGS FROM LIST ON LEFT

  3. Simile • “he was a different dog, his underjaw’d began to stick out like the fo’castle of a steamboat,…” • “…and his teeth would uncover , and shine savage like the furnaces.” • “you’d see that frog whirling in the air like a doughnut…” • “…if he got a good start, and come down flat-footed and all right, like a cat,…” • “…he’d spring straight up . . . And flop down on the floor again as solid as a gob of mud”

  4. Metaphor • Well, Smiley kept the beast in a little lattice box…”

  5. Regional Dialect -Misspellings • cal’klated • edercate • foller • curiosest • solittry

  6. Regional Dialect -Grammatical Mistakes • “…because he hadn’t no opportunities to speak of,…” • “… the asthma, or the distemper, or the consumption…” • “…and his teeth would uncover, and shine savage like the furnaces.”

  7. Regional Dialect - Inventive Punctuation • cal’klated • thish-yer • m-o-r-e • feller’d • reg'lar

  8. Regional Dialect –Loose sentence structure “Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog and sing out, "Flies, Dan'l, flies!" and quicker'n you could wink, he'd spring straight up, and snake a fly off'n the counter there, and flop down on the floor again as solid as a gob of mud, and fall to scratching the side of his head with his hind foot as indifferent as if he hadn't no idea he'd been doin' any more'n any frog might do.”

  9. Regional Dialect –Colloquial or Conversation phrases • “…but only jest grip and hang on till they thronged up the sponge, if it was a year.” • “Smiley always come out winner on that pup,…” • “And when it come to fair and square jumping on a dead level,” • “Jumping on a dead level was his strong suit” • “. . .but always at the fag-end of the race she'd get excited and desperate- like…”

  10. Allusions • Andrew Jackson • 7th president, war hero, known for his determination and strong will, • a strong believer in democracy and the rights of the “common” people • Daniel Webster -a senator who supported the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 that required federal officials to recapture and return runaway slaves. Possible point ---- a common, uneducated frog wins against an educated frog with a great name- Dan'l Webster

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