Read the passage.

“I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw’d off for—I wonder if there ain’t something the matter with him—he ’pears to look mighty baggy somehow.” And he ketched Dan’l by the nap of the neck, and hefted him, and says, “Why blame my cats if he don’t weigh five pound!”
Which of these is not a characteristic of dialect in the passage from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain?

incorrect spelling
incorrect grammar
slang
sarcasm

Question

Read the passage.

“I do wonder what in the nation that frog throw’d off for—I wonder if there ain’t something the matter with him—he ’pears to look mighty baggy somehow.” And he ketched Dan’l by the nap of the neck, and hefted him, and says, “Why blame my cats if he don’t weigh five pound!”
Which of these is not a characteristic of dialect in the passage from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” by Mark Twain?

 	
	incorrect spelling
	incorrect grammar
	slang
	sarcasm

icesysyfish · Answer

slang! (:

dinorap1 · Answer

No the answer isn't slang. I'm pretty sure it's sarcasm.