relfection: The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

While reading “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County”, I recognized that there was a lot of diction and humor in the story.
The diction that Mark Twain uses is very unique. He uses it when he talks about Simon Wheeler when he “reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph…but all through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity” (Twain, 525). The other diction that he uses is that of old English, or English that is not correct. This type of diction is also shown in Huckleberry Finn and the Adventures of Tom Sawyer.
The other element that Mark Twain is known for in his stories is humor. The humor in the story is shown in that of the description of Jim Smiley. The description begins with the description that Jim Smiley makes a lot of bets and that he even bet on his own wife. The humor really beings when the Stranger and Jim Smiley have a bet that Jim’s frog is the farthest jumping frog in Calaveras County. This is shown when “he says, ‘I do wonder what in then nation that frog throw’d off for- I wonder if there ain’t something the matter with him-he ‘pears to look mighty baggy, somehow’…and turned [the frog] upside down and he belched out a handful of shot” (Twain, 529). He tried to catch the cheater but the Stranger was already long gone with Jim’s 40 dollars.