Question

Read the passage.

“I do wonder what in the 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 he ketched Dan’l by the nap of the neck, and hefted him, and says, “Why blame my cats if he don’t weigh five pound!”

Which of these is not a characteristic of dialect in the passage from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain?


slang


incorrect grammar


incorrect spelling


sarcasm

Answer 1

The characteristic not present in the passage's dialect is sarcasm; it includes slang, incorrect grammar, and incorrect spelling instead.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the passage from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain, a characteristic that is not present in the dialect is sarcasm. The dialect includes elements of slang (“I don’t see no p’ints”), incorrect grammar (“aint got no frog”), and incorrect spelling (“ketched”, “hefted”), which help to convey the local color and character of the speaker’s regional dialect. However, sarcasm, which is the use of irony to mock or convey contempt, is not explicitly depicted in the dialect of this particular passage.