"when all of a sudden up pops this frog" Lines 4-5
Aal cleverly writes this comical and ironic poem. The reader is first subjugated to the dialect, which is African American. Furthermore, irony is used to make the reader laugh. This woman Hazel encounters a magical talking frog, as one would find in a fairy tale. However she is not impressed by this. She seems more concerned with the fact that the frog showed up at all! When asked by the frog to kiss him in order to turn into a prince, Hazel responds by calling him a "pervert", again seeming to miss what the frog is saying. She is focused on the literal implications of what he says, not paying attention to his words. She later scoffs at the frog's words, saying, "me a princess" in lines 24-25, as if the concept is simply unbelievable. Aal's sense of humor is present in her spunky character of Hazel.
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