Plance Sleepy Hollow part 2

Literary Devices

100

• with just murmur enough to lull one to repose

• Onomatopoeia

200

reverberated by the angry echoes

personification

300

• A drowsy, dreamy influence seems to hang over the land

atmosphere

400

that the rushing speed with which he sometimes passes along the Hollow, like a midnight blast

simile

500

• Headless Horseman of Sleepy Hollow

alliteration 

More Lit. Terms

100

hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves

hyperbole 

200

• "Spare the rod and spoil the child."

allusion

300

• for he was a huge feeder, and, though lank, had the dilating powers of an anaconda

metaphor

400

• and would frighten them woefully with speculations upon comets and shooting stars; and with the alarming fact that the world did absolutely turn round, and that they were half the time topsy-turvy

satire

500

Van Tassel said, 

• "fall to, and help themselves”

dialect