The following question has two parts. Answer Part A first, and then Part B. Part A
In "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," what is the main effect of hyperbole?
0 A to communicate emotions
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B. to emphasize greatness
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to contrast qualities
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D
to add humor
Part B
Which of these sentences from "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" best illustrates the answer to Part A?
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A. I added that if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.
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B. [Wjell, there was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of 49 or maybe 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 warn't finished when he
first come to the camp.
C. If he even see a straddle bug start to go anywheres, he would bet you how long it would take him to get to-to wherever he was going
to, and if you took him up, he would foller that straddle bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long
he was on the road.
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