ENGL 2132 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County
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Twain was the first to write in common dialect. The southern twag seen in his novels such as huckleberry finn. String together incongruities and absurdities in a wandering, purposeless way. Well, you see i didn"t come to school on time because my dog ate my homework and then threw it up on the carpet. We were out of the blue carpet cleaner, which my mom likes best, so i had to go to the store and buy some. But they only had yellow carpet cleaner, that just wouldn"t do! and so on and so forth. Simon wheeler, who is the narrator of the celebrated jumping frog of. Calaveras county , tells the story of a jim smiley even though he was asked about a leonidas smiley. Dropping of a studied remark without apparently knowing it, as if one were speaking aloud. This is where the straight faced humor begins to play out.
