The correct answer would be option A. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". A frame story can also be called a frame tale. It is a literary device that will sometimes serve as a companion piece for a story, which is in another story. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" is an example of a story within a story. It consists of a story that is within another story. It has a frame story (at the beginning and at the end) and in the inner story. It starts off as a reporter, who is being sent to interview a person--leading off to where the person tells the story of the frog to the reporter.