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Although both Twain and Bryson depend on irony, satire, and humor to create their memoirs, the final products are quite different.

Although the authors create characters to provide comic relief, create ____, and critique society, they do so through very different means/techniques.

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like Twain, author Bill Bryson tells his story, “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid,” in a similar,but varied, style and manner with a like use of situational irony.

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While both authors follow the conventions of humor, Twain's piece adheres more closely to these conventions by ____. In Bryson's story, by contrast, ________.

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While both authors follow the conventions of humor, Twain's piece adheres more closely to these conventions by ____. In Bryson's story, by contrast, ________.

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It is apparent in these stories too different ways of creating humor using; Local Color, exaggeration, and incongruity

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The types of humor utilized within Mark Twain’s short story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of  Calaveras County,” his memoir Life on the Mississippi, and Bill Bryson’s piece The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid depend upon Local Color, hyperbole, and _______.

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The types of humor utilized within Mark Twain’s short story “The Notorious Jumping Frog of  Calaveras County,” his memoir Life on the Mississippi, and Bill Bryson’s piece The Life and Times of Thunderbolt Kid depend upon Local Color, hyperbole, and _______.

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Although incorporated in different ways, both authors use local color, humor, and important secondary characters to create effective, entertaining writings

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While Twain wrote “The Notorious Jumping Frog in Calaveras County” in 1865, and Bryson wrote The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid: A Memoir in 1951,both authors can be compared for their use of humor in their writing. However, Twain uses dialect to achieve his humor, while Bryson uses hyperbole for his humor.

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While two pieces may be from completely different times, born out of completely opposite experiences, the science that builds the humorous structures of the pieces are almost completely identical. The (evidence) provides a bare skeleton for both pieces, but the personal experiences and writing styles of the authors create very different final bodies.

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Mark Twain and Bill Bryson are different writers of different times, but they both share common literary devices. Throughout Twain's piece, "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" he uses archetypes and exaggerations to make the story seem funny. Bryson  does the same thing except, he uses real exaggerations, throughout "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid".

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In each of their respective works, Twain and Bryson make use of Local Color, satire, and secondary characters in order to fuel the humorous element that presides over each of their stories.

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In Bill Bryson's "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" and in Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" the authors incorporate elements of Local Color, humor, and secondary characters in order to introduce setting and advance the plot.

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In order to build humor in these works, both authors employ archetypes, juxtaposition, and satire, but often in different ways ways.

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An author can use many different techniques to write a humorous piece, such as in Mark Twain's "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and Bill Bryson's exert "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" with their use of local color, archetypes, and satire.

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Although the authors use similar techniques like irony, local color, and humor each piece has a unique style that offers a different approach to what the audience is reading.

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“The humorous story depends upon for its effect upon the manner of the telling” (Twain “How to Tell a Story” 575). One of the most popular American authors of all time, Mark Twain, believed that in order to tell a unique and humorous story, the author must tell it in a unique and humorous manner. Twain uses this manner as well as situational irony in his story, “The Notorious Jumping Frog.”  Many authors since Twain have tried to follow this style and tell their stories like Twain, and, like Twain, author Bill Bryson tells his story, “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid,” in a similar manner and with a similar use of situational irony.  In contrast,

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Humor can be used in many writings and time periods. Twain's story "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and Bryson's memoir "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" show all kinds of humor. Techniques both authors use are irony, local color, and satire.

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In the stories "The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" and "The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid" use methods of humor such as local color, anecdote-memoir, and secondary characters to help develop the plot.

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In their works, “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” and The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Twain and Bryson use many of the same devices and techniques such as archetypes, satire, and strong secondary characters to highlight the humor in their pieces, but with their own different and respective styles.

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In both “The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid” and in “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” the authors use irony to build humor making their stories more entertaining for the reader. But, In “The Life and Times...” Bill Bryson shapes his story as an anecdote and in “The Notorious Jumping Frog...” Mark Twain uses hyperbole to exaggerate his humor, These stories also have a drastic vernacular contrast.