Vocabulary
Who Dat Is?
What Had Happend Was....
Characteristics of Romanticism
It is what it is; ya mean?
100
A money lender who charges high interest rates.
What is a userer?
100
They wrote the short story, "The Devil and Tom Walker"?
Who is Washington Irving
100
The devil appeared before Tom Walker because....
What is digging up a skull and kicking it?
100
An example used to explain this characterstic: Luke Skywalker leaving his home of Tattoine and becoming a Jedi.
What is "Common Man as a Hero"?
100
All that was left of Tom's wife after she battled the devil was...
What is her heart and liver?
200
A woman who flirts with a man to gain their affection.
What is a coquette?
200
Ichabod handles being scared by.....
What is singing pslamodies?
200
The devil signified his control over people by....
What is having a person's named carved in a rotting tree?
200
A sunset that captures the beauty of our world, also explains the workings of a person's belief system.
What is "Nature as a source for spirituality"?
200
Tom Walker's new job after meeting the Devil is a....
What is a userer?
300
Cannot break through, not able to overcome.
What is being impregnable?
300
The devil's name according to the town that Tom Walker lived, refered to him as.....
Who is Old Scratch?
300
Brom Bones wants to fight Ichabod, but.....
What is not being able to because it will make Katrina think less of him?
300
The Puritans wanted to seperate themselves from The Church of England by religion and through their writing style.
What is "Individuality"?
300
Ichabod races with his horse to _____ to get away from the Headless Horsemen.
What is a churchyard?
400
Something done to reduce anger or to win the favor of.
What is propitiatory?
400
Tom thought that ________ owned the property of the old Indian Fort where the treasure was burried.
Who is Deacon Peabody?
400
The Headless Horseman is always in a hurry because he....
What is needing to be back to the churchyard before daybreak?
400
After all the deaths that occurred due to rebuilding a society,on newly "discovered" land, many turned to literature as a means of this.....
What is "Imagination and Escapism"?
400
Ichabod looks and asks the Horesemen "who are you?" and all Ichabod could see was.....
What is a headless figure (duh...headless horsemen, right?)
500
An isolated and hidden place; removed or set apart.
What is sequestered?
500
The Headless Horseman originated as a _________
What is a Hessian Soldier?
500
At the end of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", Ichabod had.....
What is moving to New York city to avoid embarrassment?
500
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!!! "He used to tell his story to every stranger that arrived at Dr. Doolittle’s hotel. He was observed, at first, to vary on some points every time he told it, which was, doubtless, owing to his having so recently awaked. It at last settled down precisely to the tale I have related, and not a man, woman, or child in the neighborhood but knew it by heart. Some always pretended to doubt the reality of it, and insisted that Rip had been out of his head, and this was one point on which he always remained flighty. The old Dutch inhabitants, however, almost universally gave it full credit. Even to this day they never hear a thunder-storm of a summer afternoon, about the Catskills, but they say Hendrick Hudson and his crew are at their game of ninepins; and it is a common wish of all henpecked husbands in the neighborhood, when life hangs heavy on their hands, that they might have a quieting draught out of Rip Van Winkle’s flagon." The Characteristic described here best supports.....
What is Imagination and Escapism
500
Brom's said that he and the Headless Horsemen.....
What is racing really fast on their horses?
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