How does the contrasting diction of Simon Wheeler and the narrator contribute to the development of the story?

Their contrasting diction reflects how different the two men are and helps create irony in the story.

Explanation:

This question is about the short story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", by Mark Twain.

The narrator of the story is instructed by a friend to talk to a man named Simon Wheeler. He is supposed to ask Wheeler about a man called Leonidas Smiley. It turns out that the narrator's friend is setting him up to listen to a sequence of supposedly funny and harmless, as well as useless, stories about a man named Smiley who trained a frog to jump higher than any other frog in the county.

Readers can see how impossible it will be for the narrator to enjoy Wheeler's tales. Twain uses their different types of diction to convey their different intellectual levels and perspectives. The narrator uses high diction. Wheeler's low diction, on the other hand, makes his story quite compelling and fun to listen to. Yet, that is not how the narrator feels. He leaves as soon as has the chance, angry at the friend who deceived him. He has simply and ironically wasted his precious time for nothing.

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government is strong when they have the ability to persuade those they govern to believe government has enough power to force them or should be forcing them to do government’s will.

when enough of the citizenry do not believe government can force them or should force them to do its bidding, government has lost or will lose its strength and power to coerce.

when enough of the citizenry do believe government can force or should force them to do its bidding, they become passive at the least or actively pro-government and repeat government’s own rhetoric to pass on what they have been persuaded by government’s propaganda.

a true majority isn’t always needed to govern or to stop government. many times all that is needed is a strong minority. if a determined 30% of the population rises up against government in a concerted effort to bring it down, this size minority usually will succeed as long as those actively opposing the minority are less in force than the minority. so if 41% of the population sits at home watching tv rooting for one side or the other, they don’t matter. it’s the active parties who make a difference.