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“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 spelling
incorrect grammar
sarcasm

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Answer:

sarcasm

Step-by-step explanation:

it obvious

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The option which is not a characteristic of dialect in this passage from "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" by Mark Twain is sarcasm. There is nothing sarcastic in this excerpt - a man is just weighing a frog in order to see whether it can compete with his cats. No sarcasm is involved here. However, incorrect spelling and grammar are obvious, and there are a couple of examples of slang as well.
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