The inciting incident, the conflict, in the plot is Jim Smiley making a bet with his "<span>celebrated jumping frog." The </span>rising action<span> creates suspense for the reader when the challenger fills the frog with buckshot (little metal balls) in order to keep the frog from jumping. This is done without Jim Smiley's noticing. As a result, the </span><span>climax</span>
<span>Lizabeth is able to express her deep anger by ripping up all of Miss Lottie’s marigolds.</span>
<span>C is the answer. Carl Sandburg is the simple subject because he is the main focus of the simple sentence ‘Carl Sandburg was born’. ’The now famous Carl Sandburg’ is a complete subject. ‘Was born’ is the simple predicate and ‘was born in 1878 in Galesburg, Illinois’ is the complete predicate.</span>
C. Paraphrase does not contain a direct quotation but still gives the general gist of the quote.
