Close Read: Analyze Craft and Structure Identify the choice that best answers the question.
Which incongruity makes the opening paragraph of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" humorous?
o A. the inconsistent way in which the narrator mixes formal language and informal dialect
B. the absurd change in the narrator's attitude from strong belief to disbelief in the existence of Simon Wheeler
C. the contrast between the narrator's friend who lives in the East and the characters whom the narrator meets out West
OD
the difference between the friend's everyday request for information and the narrator's suspicion that his friend wants him to be bored
to death

can you post the story

conclusions made on the basis of unstated or stated evidence are called inferences

i decided to stay late in the laboratory to continue my experiment with the lightbulb. at midnight, thomas edison opened the door and saw all the stuff he was working on. the lightbulb, film and the transmitter. as he walks in an idea hits him on how the lightbulb would work. he would have to change a few wires around to get it to light up. when he did change the wires around it worked so he decided to write a telegraph to his friend to tell him about his success.   as he was packing up he grabbed the telegraph and walked to his home. he told his wife about the success and the next morning mailed the telegraph.