This document discusses Mark Twain's short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". It describes the story structure as a frame story, where a background story provides context for a more emphasized inner story. It also outlines humor techniques used in the story, including exaggeration, an oblivious narrator, and use of regional dialect. Finally, it defines five vocabulary words used in the story.
This document discusses Mark Twain's short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". It describes the story structure as a frame story, where a background story provides context for a more emphasized inner story. It also outlines humor techniques used in the story, including exaggeration, an oblivious narrator, and use of regional dialect. Finally, it defines five vocabulary words used in the story.
This document discusses Mark Twain's short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". It describes the story structure as a frame story, where a background story provides context for a more emphasized inner story. It also outlines humor techniques used in the story, including exaggeration, an oblivious narrator, and use of regional dialect. Finally, it defines five vocabulary words used in the story.
by Mark Twain The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyStory Structure Frame Story: A storyline that acts as the framework (frame) for a story-within-the-story to take place Its the overarching story that contains another (more emphasized) story It provides the background story that gives the real, more focused-on story an excuse to be told A narrative that contains a frame story and a story- with-a-story starts and ends with the frame story (hence frameit goes around the outside of the whole story) The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras CountyHumor Techniques Exaggeration/Embellishment
An oblivious narrator who takes a serious tone: adds
humor by suggesting that the teller of the tale is unaware of the humor of the story or its ridiculousness
Regional Dialect: the version of a language specific to a
particular region; regional dialects reflect accents, word pronunciations, idioms, speech patterns, grammar misuses, etc.