The Notorious Jumping Frog of
Calaveras County Test
An exaggeration of details or embellishment of events is known as - answerHyperbole
The way of speaking specific to a location or region or otherwise associated with a
particular group of people is known as - answerDialect
Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley: Real or Fake - answerFake
Simon Wheeler: Real or Fake - answerReal
Jim Smiley: Real or Fake - answerFake
Narrator: Real or Fake - answerReal
Narrator's friend: Real or Fake - answerReal
"He roused up, and gave me good day" means: - answerHe stood up and said hello
"If there was a horse race, you'd find him flush or you'd find him busted at the end of it"
means: - answerBy the end of the race/ bet , Jim smileys either flushed with happiness
or busted because he just lost money
"uncommon lucky" means: - answerWay too lucky
"And he had a little small bull-pup, that to look at him you'd think he warn't worth a cent
but to set around and look ornery and lay for a chance to steal something" means: -
answerThe pup (Andrew Jackson) May look worthless but when he is being betted on
he becomes a different pup
"his underjaw'd begin to stick out like the fo'castle of a steamboat and his teeth would
uncover and shine like the furnaces" means: - answerHe is about to snatch onto the
hind leg of opponent
throwed up the sponge" means: - answerGive up
"lay for a bet" means: - answerSmiley looking for a bet
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