Close Read: Analyze Craft and Structure Identify the choice that best answers the question.
Which incongruity makes the opening paragraph of "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" humorous?
o A. the inconsistent way in which the narrator mixes formal language and informal dialect
B. the absurd change in the narrator's attitude from strong belief to disbelief in the existence of Simon Wheeler
C. the contrast between the narrator's friend who lives in the East and the characters whom the narrator meets out West
OD
the difference between the friend's everyday request for information and the narrator's suspicion that his friend wants him to be bored
to death