The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Exam Review

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

2. Instructions • 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 may answer after we finish reading the phrase or quote. • The first one to raise their hand will be chosen and may answer. • Good luck.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Now, for the questions…

6. “…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

7. Answer: Hyperbole

8. “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

9. Answer: Anecdote

10. “ 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

11. Answer Psychoanalysis

12. “…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…” • a. Incongruity • b. Frame story • c. Anthropomorphism • d. Anecdote • e. A and D

13. Answer Anthropomorphism

14. “…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

15. Answer Tall tale

16. “ 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

17. Answer A and E

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

19. Answer Vernacular

20. “…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

21. Answer Dialect

22. “…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

23. Answer A and B