Read the passage. Paraphrased from “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County” A friend of the narrator’s asks him to call on talkative old Simon Wheeler. The friend says he wants news of his friend Reverend Leonidas W. Smiley. Instead, Wheeler tells the narrator a long drawn-out story about Jim Smiley. As he tells the story, Wheeler never smiles, and he never frowns. What is the bolded sentence an example of?

a human foible

a funny name

an incongruity

a hyperbole