Mark Twain
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- "I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove of the old, dilapidated tavern in the ancient mining camp of Angel's, and I noticed that he was fat and bald-headed, and had an expression of winning gentleness and simplicity upon his tranquil countenance"- This quote is significant because it projects the imagery that the author uses. He uses visual imagery to give a description of what Simon Wheeler looks like. For instance he says," I found Simon Wheeler dozing comfortably by the bar-room stove...", giving the image of Simon dozing off by the bar-room stove.
- IMAGERY
- "There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49 or may be it was the spring of '50 I don't recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume wasn't finished when he first came to the camp; "- The significance of this quote is that it gives set information about where this story takes place in Angel's mining camp in Calaveras Country (California).
- ANGEL'S MINING CAMP
- SETTING
- "Why, I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog and sing out, "Flies, Dan'l, flies!....You never see a frog so modest and straightforward as he was, for all he was so gifted. And when it come to fair and square jumping on a dead level, he could get over more ground at one straddle than any animal of his breed you ever see."- The frog Dan'l Webster symbolizes how difficult it can be to predict the next bet and that betting can be risky at time. This quote is significant because it describes the frog when Wheeler first got the frog.
- "Flies, Dan'l, flies!"
- SYMBOL
- DIALECT
- "What might it be that you've got in the box?"And Smiley says, sorter indifferent like, "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't it's only just a frog."And the feller took it, and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, "H'm so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?"
- - The effect of this quote shows dialect. This dialect is shown to emphasis on the southerner characteristics of Smiley.
- "It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, may be, but it an't it's only just a frog."
- "H'm so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?"
- " I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog..."This name shows allusion, the significance of the the name Dan'l Webster, is the name of the frog and also shares the name of a American senator, statesman, and orator.
- " I've seen him set Dan'l Webster down here on this floor Dan'l Webster was the name of the frog..."
- ALLUSION
- "In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result."This quote is significant to the narrator because it gives detail that the narrator is doing a request for a friend. He also says "I" so this is first person. .
- "In compliance with the request of a friend of mine, who wrote me from the East, I called on good-natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and inquired after my friend's friend, Leonidas W. Smiley, as requested to do, and I hereunto append the result."
- NARRATOR
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