Compare and contrast the last two texts you have read, "Life on the Mississippi" and "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County". In what ways are the two pieces similar and in what ways are they different? Analyze the style and humor of both texts; do they use the same style of humor?

Mark Twain believes in using humor in his writing as he included numerous occasions of humor throughout his writings. although the humors are dry and hardly noticed. Twain believes that humor was the best way for people to handle their anger and feelings towards different issues. Below in the explanation is a comparison of the humor and style in "Life on the Mississippi" and "The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county"

Explanation:

In "The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county", the structure of the text is different from that of "life on the Mississippi".The story in the notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county is exaggerated and a fiction whereas the story of Life on the Mississippi is a realistic story and non fictional.

In "The life on the Mississippi", the structure is written in a formal way making the humor cloudy and less noticeable. The story is written in first person point of view whereas "The notorious jumping frog of Calaveras county" was written in third person omniscient.

Mark Twain illustrated the humorous characters of Simon Wheeler and Jim Smiley in "The notorious jumping frog of calaveras county". Twain uses hyperbole, dialect and irony as key writing styles to create a humorous personal style in "The notorious jumping frog of calaveras county."

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.