Excerpt from Jim Smily and His Jumping Frog
Mark Twain
Well, I called on good natured, garrulous old Simon Wheeler, and I inquired after your friend Leonidas W. Smity, as you
requested me to do, and I hereunto append the result. If you can get any information out of it you are cordially welcome to it
I have a lurking suspicion that your Leonidas W. Smily is a myth-that you never knew such a personage, and that you only
conjectured that if I asked old Wheeler about him it would remind him of his infamous Jim Smily, and he would go to work
and bore me nearly to death with some infernal reminiscence of him as long and tedious as it should be useless to me if that
was your design, Mr. Ward, it will gratify you to know that it succeeded.
What can the reader conclude about the story that Simon Wheeler is going to tell the narrator?
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The story will be long and tedious
Smily thinks the story is ridiculous
The story will be short and succinct
D)
The narrator thinks the story is serious

if this is a true or false question its true

1. read the following excerpt from franklin d. roosevelt's "fireside chat 19":

on the other side of the picture, we must learn also to know that guerilla warfare against the germans in, let us say serbia or norway, us; that a successful russian offensive against the germans us; and that british successes on land or sea in any part of the world strengthen our hands.

remember always that germany and italy, regardless of any formal declaration of war, consider themselves at war with the united states at this moment just as much as they consider themselves at war with britain or russia. and germany puts all the other republics of the americas into the same category of enemies. the people of our sister republics of this hemisphere can be honored by that fact.  

the true goal we seek is far above and beyond the ugly field of battle. when we resort to force, as now we must, we are determined that this force shall be directed toward ultimate good as well as against immediate evil. we americans are not destroyers — we are builders.

analyze the effectiveness of this excerpt. how does it function within the speech as a whole? how does the structure of the excerpt to convey the speech's purpose and key points? support your argument with evidence from the speech. (10 points)

hey! what was the rest of the question?

(4) "oh, i've got better plans than that," laughed kerry. "i've got four firecrackers and two model rockets. care to join me in the backyard? "

this is the correct answer because of one simple word. "backyard"