In it the narrator retells a story he heard from a bartender Simon Wheeler at the Angels Hotel in Angels.

Example of hyperbole in the notorious jumping frog. He would go to work and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me. The story has also been published as Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog and The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. He reports that Jim never done nothing for three months but set in his back yard and learn that frog to jump Here Wheeler uses hyperbole to emphasize Smileys determined nature.

Andrew Jacksons underjawd begin to stick out like the focastle of a steamboat and his teeth would uncover and shine savage like the furnaces This simile illustrates the transformation of Andrew Jackson from a little small bull pup to a champion as soon as money was up on him he was a different dog. 2 Simon Wheeler maintains that Jim Smiley was obsessed with teaching his frog new tricks. When Smiley was distracted the stranger filled Danl Webster with lead resulting in Smiley losing the bet.

The frog in the story was claimed to be able to out-jump all other frogs in the whole county. In this lesson students will revisit The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain to analyze and synthesize multiple examples of hyperbole. In The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain which quote is an example of hyperbole.

Another example of hyperbole is Simon Wheeler. Moren any frog might do. You never see a frog so modest and straightforward as he was for all he was so gifted.

The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras Country exemplifies the common everyday characteristics of realism by using the literary element of the common dialect used in the dialogue. The story is an example of how Twain expresses what he knows and lessons that he has learned. If that was the design it certainly succeeded.

We designed this lesson on Hyperbole as a paper-only lesson but it could easily be adapted to Google. The conversations between the characters are portrayed in an English dialect local to the area and time period with all of its unique idioms and inflections. Identify three examples of exaggeration hyperbole that Twain uses in this story.