Main Plot
&
Setting and Mood
Vocabulary
Characterization
Plot
Mixed Bag
100

This is the setting of the story.

 What is Boston, Massachusetts?

100

widely existing or occurring

What is prevalent?

100

This is the narration point of view of the story.

What is third person omniscient?

100

This is the part of the deal that need not be mentioned.

What is sell his soul to the devil?
100

Greed leads to misery and don't take shortcuts are examples of this. 

What is the theme?

200
This guy hid the treasure that Old Scratch now gives to the men he makes contracts with. 

Who is Kidd the Pirate?

200

lack of harmony, conflict

What is discord?

200

"He's just ready for burning!" is this type of characterization.

What is indirect characterization?

200
Her liver and heart end up tied in her apron in a tree in the forest when she tries to fight the devil to make a deal with her. 

Who is Tom's wife?

200

When Tom said "let the devil take me if I've made a farthing" and then the devil knocks on the door to take him, this is demonstrated.

What is irony?
300

This is an example of a Gothic dark setting. It sets the tone and mood for the story.

What is the forest where Tom meet's the devil?

300

Tom did this to steal money for his usurer business.

What is extort?

300

Tom never changes from the beginning of the story to the end of the story, making him this kind of character.

What is flat or one-dimensional. 

300

This is what happened to all of Tom's money, his house, and his horses. 

What is burned or turned to cinders?

300
Colonists believed that natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and tornadoes were sent by him to punish sinners.

Who is God?

400

Tom, Mrs. Walker, The Devil

Who are the main characters?

400
Examples of this Gothic element are the skull with a tomahawk through it and Tom's wife's liver and heart tied in her apron in a tree. 

What is grotesqueness?

400

These names were carved on the trees that had already been cut down in the forest. 

Who are the other people that made the deal with the devil?

400

When Tom consoled the loss of his property with the loss of his wife, readers learn this about Tom.

What is Tom's happy his wife is dead. 

400

By carrying a Bible in his pocket, praying loudly, and accusing his neighbors of sinning Tom was trying to do this.

What is save himself from going to hell?

500

This was so awful that even Tom Walker wouldn't do it to get the devil's money, and he is the greediest of them all. This reflects the beliefs of most transcendentalists and Washington Irving.

What is be a slave trader?

500

Tom decorated the outside of his house fancy with a boastful display of wealth, but the inside not being furnished at all demonstrated this.

What is parsimony?

500

What special interest group of the time does Washington Irving have sympathy with and is demonstrated by Tom's refusal to be a slave-trader. 

Who are abolitionists?

500
When Tom buried his horse upside-down, thinking that the day the devil came to take him, he'd be able to ride away faster, the town said he was this. 

What is crackbrained?

500

We can infer the position of women in Washington Irving's time by this little bit of information.

Why doesn't Tom's wife have a name?

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