In the short story “The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” ,the comical Mark Twain satirizes this tale. The main literary device used in the story is satire. In the narrative,eastern people are portrayed as well educated and sophisticated whilst the western people are uneducated and unworldly. In the twist mark twain put in his narrative,he portrays an easterner, snobby and annoying,who is beat by wheeler the loquacious westerner. Wheeler is a colorful and odd character with his distinct vernacular. He exaggerates immensely about the talent of Daniel Webster. He describes the frog: [Simon would] set Dan’l Webster down her on this floor…and sing out, “Flies, Dan’l, flies!” and quicker’n you could wink he’d