Romantic literature dominated american arts and letters up until the end of the 19th century. in "fenimore cooper's literary offences" twain discusses how cooper's writing fails because cooper's writing focuses more on imagination than on any sort of logic or realistic depictions. how does twain avoid these "literary offenses" in "the celebrated jumping frog of calaveras county" and why is this avoidance significant?

Choose the best paraphrase of bashes haiku an old silent pond a frog jumps into the pond splash silence again a. the pond was silent until the frog jumped in splashing now alternates with quiet b. a pond will never be silent after one frog jumps into it and starts splashing around c. a frog jumps into a quiet pond there is a splash then all is quiet once more d. there was once an accident body of water that a frog splashed into and died