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Basile [38]
4 years ago
5

Read the passage. Paraphrased from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” A friend of the narrator’s asks him to call

on talkative old Simon Wheeler. The friend says he wants news of his friend Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley. Instead, Wheeler tells the narrator a long drawn-out story about Jim Smiley. As he tells the story, Wheeler never smiles, and he never frowns. What is the bolded sentence an example of?
a human foible

a funny name

an incongruity

a hyperbole
English
2 answers:
ioda4 years ago
8 0

The correct answer is:

an incongruity

The bolded sentence is: As he tells the story he never smiles, and he never frowns.

The meaning of "incongruity" is the state of being out of keeping or place; inappropriate; unbecoming: inappropriateness, incongruousness, unsuitability, lack of harmony, discordance, inharmoniousness, dissonance.

MA_775_DIABLO [31]4 years ago
7 0
an incongruity I just answer it<span />
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