Question

Read the excerpt below from "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and answer the question that follows.

[A]ll through the interminable narrative there ran a vein of impressive earnestness and sincerity ...

Based on the language style, who can you infer is the speaker in this excerpt?


Jim Smiley

Leonidas W. Smiley

Simon Wheeler

the narrator

Answer 1

It's the narrator

Step-by-step explanation:

The narrator is observing and using monologue in this excerpt, so it tells us that he's the speaker.