Jump! Jump!
This is the name of the "beast" kept in a "little lattice box."
Who is Dan'l Webster?
This is Twain's home town.
Where is Hannibal, Missouri?
This sleeping drunk tells an interminable tale of the wrong Smiley.
Who is Simon Wheeler?
This person is described as a maid, "new dependent," and counted among the "wild creatures" as friends.
Who is Sylvia?
This punctuation mark allows for both Jewett and Twain to capture the dialect of common people.
What is the apostrophe?
This gymnastics move is described as whirling around like a doughnut.
What is a "summerset" or somersault?
This event closed down boat travel on the real Mississippi river.
What is the Civil War?
This plodding, dilatory, provoking creature serves as a companion to Sylvia.
Who is Mistress Mooly?
What is his gun?
The function of a comma in "[Wheeler] was fat and baldheaded, and had an expression of winning gentleness..."
What is a series?
This frog was "learned" to catch flies and jump high.
Who is Dan'l Webster?
This is how two fathoms of water is described.
What is to "mark twain?"
This flew gallantly from the jackstaff of the ornamented steamboat.
What is a flag?
This bird's nest is comparable to a White Heron's.
What is the hawk's nest?
This punctuation is used to indicate that dialogue has been abruptly cut off.
What is the dash?
Who is Parson Walker's wife?
This often used simile describes how boats are situated in the St. Louis, MO wharf.
What is "packed in like sardines?"
Townsfolk might look surprised and say to this character, "Your eminence, you're back?"
Who is the boy who survived the explosion?
This is the number of confirmed dead relatives of Mrs. Tilly.
What is five? (Four children and a husband can be implied, as she is referred to as Mrs. and women could not own property on their own until after 1848 across the U.S.; Maine women could, though, in 1844.)
These are the F.A.N.B.O.Y.S
What are: for, and, not/nor, but, or, yet, so?
This person requested to hear news of Leonidas W. Smiley.
Who is the narrator's friend?
This person had money and hair oil to spare.
Who is the boy who survived the explosion?
This man was "buttonholed" into a conversation about about a "yaller one-eyed cow."
Who is the narrator in Frog?
These are the types of conditions the stranger knew of while out trekking through the New England wilderness.
What are the "horrors of the most primitive housekeeping and the dreary squalor of that level of society?
Justify the use of a semicolon herein: "The ambitions faded out, each in its turn; but the ambition to be a steamboatman always remained."
What is because it connects two related independent clauses?