Analysis: The Celebrated Jumping Frog Of Calaveras County

In the story,”The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain is about this person who makes a request from his friend who is looking for a man who goes by LEonidas W. Smiley. But as the friend who found an old wheeler he tells his story of how he knew a man that went by Jim Smiley. But in his story we learn that Jim Smiley likes to gamble on anything. On one day he gambled that his frog would jump higher than anyone in Calaveras County. Mark Twain uses Diction to play with his words to describe the way people are in the south.

To begin with, in paragraph 4 it described the way people in the south. It quotes as I follow,” There was a feller here once who went by the name of Jim Smiley.” From this quote Mark Twain uses his word

to describe the way people in the south with using the word feller because only people in the south use that feller.From this we can say that mark Twain is really good with diction to that point that he is able to describe the way people talk in the south with one word.

Secondly, In paragraph 7 it tells the way the people in the south talk because it quotes,”edercate” because Mark Twain used his word he was able to show that the way that the south talk, and secondly from this the south would also have bad schools because they don't teach well because of how the south talk.In the end of this we can come together and say that with the help of diction we can see how the south were raised by mark twain uses diction.
Lastly, in paragraph 1 Mark Twain uses complex words when it quotes,” In compliance with the request.” This quotes explains that Mark Twain uses diction when he puts “ compliance”, because at first you may not know and that would be using diction because it can make you or your character sounds smart.