9--Mark-Twain美国文学期末复习.pptVIP

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Brief introduction Plot summary The role of language The narrative pattern Rhetorical Devices Brief introduction The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County  a comic frontier/western tale, together with many tall tales, which Mark Twain heard in the western mining camps in 1861. theme: competition between the pioneers, selfishness and mercilessness of capitalism colloquial style: in the general standard speech of the uneducated This tale highlighted various aspects of late nineteenth-century American society and culture through th