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
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B. the absurd change in the narrator's attitude from strong belief to disbelief in the existence of Simon Wheeler
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C. the contrast between the narrator's friend who lives in the East and the characters whom the narrator meets out West
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D. the difference between the friend's everyday request for information and the narrator's suspicion that his friend wants him to be bored
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a.) literature that explores grotesque characters and eerie, violent occurrences in a dreary setting.

emerson essentially believes that traveling is overrated. he supports this perspective through an initial focus on "the idea" of places like italy, england, and egypt, and the fascination of "educated americans" with them. he argues that those places only took on the grand, majestic ideas that they represent because "they who made england, italy, or greece venerable in the imagination did so by sticking fast where they were, like an axis of the earth." yes, those places are grand, but only because they so clearly represent the places that they are. the art and culture of italy, england, and egypt is authentic, and therefore significant.

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one of the central themes of edward abbey's work has been his staunch opposition to the glen canyon dam on the colorado river that created lake powell, destroying stunning scenery and wildlife habitat, endangering many rare species of fish and animals, and also irreparably destroying many important archaeological sites which provided information about the early inhabitants of the united states.