TTH Vocab
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100
a small opening
What is a crevice
100
This verb means ached or craved
What is yearned
100
This is the climax of the story
What is the narrator confesses
100
Name the climax of "Sleepy Hollow"
What is Ichabod is carried away by the Headless Horseman
100
Describe the old man's eye in TTH
What is it is pale blue with a film over it like a vulture eye
200
This adjective means sensitive or sharpened
What is acute
200
This adjective means appropriate or fitting for a situation
What is suitable
200
Name two things we learn about the narrator in the exposition
What are he is really crazy, his sense of hearing is acute, and he is going to kill the old man because of his eye
200
Name and explain two different conflicts in "Sleepy Hollow"
What are man vs. self (Ichabod vs. imagination) and man vs. man (Ichabod vs. Brom)
200
State the golden maxim in which Ichabod believed
What is "Spare the rod and spoil the child."
300
This noun means the act of showing good manners or politeness
What is suavity
300
This adverb means to do something lazily or inactively
What is idly
300
Name the setting and the point of view
What are the old man's house around midnight and 1st person
300
Name three items found after Ichabod's disappearance
What are his hat, the horse's saddle, and a smashed pumpkin
300
Name the two horses in "Sleepy Hollow"
What are Gunpowder and Daredevil
400
One adverb means to do something violently and the other means to do something cleverly
What are vehemently and cunningly
400
This adjective means fearful or dangerous and this noun means a person who causes trouble
What are formidable and menace
400
Name three rising action events
What are 1) narrator stalks the old man, 2) the narrator kills the old man when he wakes up and opens his eyes, 3) the narrator cuts up the body and buries it under the floorboards, 4) the police come to investigate
400
Name three rising action events from "Sleepy Hollow"
What are 1) Ichabod has eyes for Katrina, 2) Brom also likes Katrina, 3) Ichabod is invited to the Van Tassel's party, 4) Brom plays pranks on Ichabod, 5) Ichabod dances with Katrina
400
Provide two physical descriptions of Ichabod -
What are 1) tall and thin with narrow shoulders and long arms and legs, 2) large green, glassy eyes and a long, sharp nose, 3) feet like shovels
500
The verb form means to hide one's true feelings and the noun form means the act of hiding one's true feelings
What are dissemble and dissimulation
500
This noun means a state in which all hope is lost and the other means a feeling of hatred or meanness
What are desperation and viciousness
500
Name and explain two conflicts of the story
What is man vs. self - the narrator struggles with his sanity and man vs. man - the narrator hates the old man's eye
500
State two theories that were given to explain the disappearance of Ichabod
What are 1) he was taken away by ghostly means and 2) he is living in another town because he was dismissed by Katrina
500
Name and explain the theme of both stories
What are 1) a guilty conscience can lead you to confess and 2) don't let your imagination get the best of you
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