Silent Reading, 20 min

• Review characteristics of Realism--discuss places they're seen in Frederick Douglass, Ambrose Bierce, and Mark Twain.
• New terms: Vernacular, Satire (Twain is a satirist), and Comic Devices (including hyperbole, understatement, comic characters, situations, and comparisons).
• Read "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County," Mark Twain--p. 526
• Write "Tell the Tale," on p. 533.