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The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County by Mark Twain The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County The short-story collection The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County, and Other Sketches, Twains first book, contains twenty-seven short stories and sketches. Mark Twain‘s “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” was first published in the November 18,1865, edition of The New York Saturday Press, under the title Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog. story The setting of the story is Angels Camp, a mining town in the west, still existing today. I (first-person narrator) Simon wheeler my friend Leonidas W.Smiley Jim Smiley Jim Smiley Slow Mare Small Bull-pup (Andrew Jackson ) Frog (Daniel Webster ) ( educated ) quail shot new uneducated ) Themes The theme of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” centers on the contrast between the narrator and Simon Wheeler. Twain satirizes, not just old miners and western hicks,西方希克斯 but the elite [eili:t ]精英;中坚分子educated easterners who come out west and find their training useless. The contrast between the storys main characters shows that the educated narrator looks like more of a fool than even Jim Smiley and his weighed down frog.And from the Northeast that ends up talking to a slack-jawed, [sl?kj?:d]目瞪口呆的western country guy and all the Northeastern guy can think about is how much he wants to get away from him. Its a clash of American East and West and Twain depicts [dipikt]描述it all so vividly. He also throws in a lot of references and commentary on famous American political figures and the like to help tie in the theme of America. Artistic features of humor 1. Hyperbole (some skills of exaggeration): ※“if there was a dog-fight， he‘d bet on it； if there was a cat-fight，he’d bet on it … to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road.” The use of Hyperbole enforces the essential characteristics of the object. 2. B