Question

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

Answer 1

The following are 2 cases of embellishment in the infamous bouncing frog of Calaveras district:
1. At the point when Simon Wheeler creatures to recount the story to the storyteller, the storyteller says "Simon Wheeler got me into a tough situation and barricaded me there with his seat, and afterward sat down and reeled off the tedious account"
2. At the point when Simon Wheeler is depicting the frog's abilities. "you never observe a frog so humble and direct as he seemed to be, for all he was so talented"

Answer 2

Sarcasm.

Step-by-step explanation:

In the excerpt we can find the example of slang, grammatical mistakes and spelling mistakes but not sarcasm. This excerpt is simply telling about a man who is weighing a frog to see if it can compete with his cat or not.