The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County

by Mark Twain

The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County: Dialect 1 key example

Dialect
Explanation and Analysis—Wheeler’s Dialect:

Most of “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” is written in the dialect of working-class people in the American West in the mid-1800s. While the introduction of the story is written from the perspective of a well-educated narrator from the East Coast (who uses a formal writing style), the story itself is told in the form of a monologue by the old miner Wheeler, who uses a conversational speaking style.