Sleepy Hollow Style and Allusion

Sleepy Hollow Style and Allusion

Workbook p. 92-96

POINTS

• Identify author's style related to mood

• Identify and analyze allusion

p. 92: Style

Style is an author's unique way of writing. It includes diction/word choice, tone, figurative language, imagery, rhythm, and grammatical structure.

Mood

The atmosphere or emotional state of a text (mood is usually communicated through the author's style)

Multiple Choice

What is the mood of the passage?

• cheerful

• dreamy

• suspenseful

• dark

Multiple Choice

How does the author's style help to create the mood in the passage?

• The descriptions are straightforward and easy to understand.

• Frightening occurrences are followed by sensible explanations to build tension.

• The imagery used in the passage makes things seem darker than they really are.

• The lack of sensory words makes the scene feel dull and lifeless.

p. 93 at the bottom

Multiple Choice

Identify the author's tone in the selection.

• compassionate

• critical

• humorous

• moralizing

Open Ended

Describe the picture that is being painted by the author's use of imagery in the passage.

Open Ended

Independent Practice: What is the author's purpose in using imagery in this passage? What is the imagery showing about Ichabod?

POINTS

• Identify author's style related to mood (done!)

• Identify and analyze allusion

p. 95: Allusion

• an indirect reference to a person, place, or event from literature or history

• the author assumes the reader will understand what they mean

• For instance, if I say, "The events at the Capitol last week," you know I mean the riots/storming of the Capitol building

Multiple Choice

This is an allusion to...

• Brom

• a skeleton

• Hercules

• the universe

Multiple Choice

What effect is created by the allusion to "the nightmare and her whole ninefold"?

• the setting seems bewitched.

• the setting seems dangerous.

• the setting seems industrious.

• the setting sounds magical.

Open Ended

Identify a person or event that is alluded to in the passage we read. What do we know about them/it?

Open Ended

Independent Practice: Who is Cotton Mather? What is he associated with in history? (Look it up if you don't know)

POINTS

• Identify author's style related to mood (done!)

• Identify and analyze allusion (done!)