Mark Twain
Vocabulary
Big Idea
The Story
Misc.
100
Mark Twains real name
What is Samuel Clemons
100
Fallen into ruin or decay
What is dilapidated
100
Language or dialect spoken by ordinary people.
What is vernacular?
100
What the main character like to do.
What is gambling
100
Who wrote the story
Who is Mark Twain
200
Angel's
What is a mining camp?
200
To form an opinion on incomplete information.
What is conjectured?
200
County where the story is set.
What is Calaveras?
200
How did Smiley's frog lose
What is the stranger put quail shot in his frog
200
What is the name of Smileys frog he catches
What is Dan'l Webster
300
His early childhood job at the age of 11.
What is a printers apprentice?
300
Well known for some bad quality.
What is infamous?
300
Harte and Twain are considered this genre of writing.
What is realism or naturalism?
300
What does the narrator think smiley is
What is a myth
300
What tragic event does Smiley bet on
What is Parsons wife being ill
400
Story where a boy escapes with a slave on the Mississippi river.
What is Huckleberry Finn?
400
Talkative
What is garrulous
400
Where Smiley followed the straddle bug.
Where is Mexico?
400
Why does smiley always win the horse races
What is his horse gets a head start
400
Smiley trains a frog to do this.
What is jump?
500
Exaggeration or rhetorical device used by Twain.
What is hyperbole?
500
Seemingly endless
What is imterminable
500
Two other animals Smiley had in addition to his frog, horse and pup.
What were rat terriers, chickens, and tomcats?
500
What is the name of the pup smiley bets on
Who is Andrew Jackson
500
Why does smiley train a frog
What is to bet on
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