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

1)john .f kennedy,

2) f

the correct answer is d. in john paston's letter written friday, 14, 1476, he expresses his fear that he may have to go to war.

indeed, although the black death was ravaging europe, the pastons were relatively safe from it due to their social status as they were part of the landed gentry. it is clear that the vast majority of the victims of the pandemic were the poor. the reason why he is weary of having to go to war is because at the particular time england was also devastated by the war of the roses and paston, being a courtesan was inevitably involved.

the most appropriate strategy would be to do a questions and answer type speech.

it was a big part of the story, making a lot of plot points happen?