The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Exam ReviewBy: Eugenio Gonzalez, Alfredo Melero

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.

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.

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

Now, for the questions…

“…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

Answer:

Hyperbole

“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

Answer:

Anecdote

“ 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

Answer

Psychoanalysis

“…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

Answer

Anthropomorphism

“…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

Answer

Tall tale

“ 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

Answer

A and E

“But still he was lucky, uncommon lucky; he most always come out winner.”

a. Incongruity

b. Vernacular

c. Hyperbole

d. Anthropomorphism

e. Anecdote

Answer

Vernacular

“…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

Answer

Dialect

“…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

Answer

A and B