Diction&Imagery

** Give examples of the diction and imagery Irving uses in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow." Then analyze how those things contribute to the tone of the story. **
 = ** Enchanted Elephants ** = Tone:Facetious  This contributes to the tone, facetious, because almost everyone believed that the headless horseman was real in Sleepy Hollow, but when evidence was shown that maybe someone just tried to scare the pedagogue, they did not believe it.
 * [K4nyEs0uTh]** __"...found the hat of the unfortunate Ichabod, and close beside it a shattered pumpkin." (Paragraph 79, Page 18)__

This is a situation's tone seems facetious because even though you kind of feel bad for the kid that gets spanked, it is funny at the same time because you get to see a tough person, maybe a bully, get spanked, so he knows what it feels like to get hit.
 * [K4nyEs0uTh]** __"...the claims of justice were satisfied by inflicting a double portion on some little, tough, wrong-headed, broadskirted Dutch urchin, who sulked and swelled and grew dogged and sullen beneath the birch." (Paragraph 11, Page 3)__

This has a facetious tone to it because it tells you how weird and how bizarre Ichabod Crane looked. He was compared to a run-away scarecrow from a cornfield from a distance because he was so skinny and his clothes were baggy and a little too big for him. The author also compared him to a weather-cock because his nose was crooked and it seemed like it was just sitting on his skinny neck.
 * [K4nyEs0uTh]** __"His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glass eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looked like a weather-cock" and "To see him striding along the profile of a hill on a windy day, with his clothes bagging and fluttering about him one might have mistaken him for the genius of famine descending upon the earth, or some scarecrow eloped from a cornfield." (Paragraph 9, Page 2-3)__

This relates to the tone, facetious, because whenever you read over this, sometimes you think back when you are a little kid and how scared you were of everything. Then you think back to now and you laugh at yourself for being so gullible and silly you were when you were a kid compared to now.
 * [K4nyEs0uTh]** __"How often did he shrink with the curdling awe at the sound of his own steps on the frosty crust beneath his feet; and dread to look over his shoulder,lest he should behold some uncouth being tramping close behind him!" (Paragraph 19, Page 5)__

This scene in the story is especially facetious because this is the least expecting time for the old horse to rebel against his rider because Ichabod is really scared right now and all the horse does is walk the other way Ichabod wants it to go. You can imagine that you finally got something you wanted for so long and you go brag to your friends about it, but it ends up its fake or its broken. To you it wouldn't be funny, but to other people, they would laugh at you because you made it sound so good, but in the end it was stupid.
 * [K4nyEs0uTh]** __"...he summoned up, however, all his resolution, gave his horse half a score of kicks in the ribs, and attempted to dash briskly across the bridge; but instead of starting forward, the perverse old animal made a lateral movement..."__ (Paragraph 63, Page 15)

__"Which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail, or tapping of a woodpecker, is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity."-(paragraph2)__ This example of imagery contributes to the tone, facetious, because using "quietest" and "whistle of a quail, or tapping of a woodpecker" is a little humorous and sarcastic. Also, how the author worded it is not meant to be taken seriously and he is not trying to make it seem scary or frightening because it sounds as if it is in a peaceful or laid back state. -zebrajx3 __"He was tall, but exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that dangled a mile out of his sleeves, feet that might have served for shovels, and his whole frame most loosely hung together. His head was small, and flat at top, with huge ears, large green glassy eyes, and a long snipe nose, so that it looks like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew."-(paragraph9) __ This example of imagery contributes to the tone, facetious, because the way he worded it makes it sound as if he was over exaggerating and being a bit sarcastic at some points. He also has a little bit of humor in the example by saying "...looks like a weather-cock, perched upon his spindle neck, to tell which way the wind blew." -zebrajx3

__"...rolling their white eye-balls, and showing grinning rows of ivory from ear to ear."-(paragraph48)__ This example of imagery contributes to the tone, facetious, because it is humorous. Instead of just saying "rolling their eyes and smiling" he added the "white" and "rows of ivory from ear to ear" meaning the smiles were big. -zebrajx3  __"Just then he saw the goblin riding in his stirrups..."-(paragraph68)__ This example of imagery contributes to the tone, facetious, because the author used a very harsh and humorous word like "goblin" when he could have used a much scarier like "monster" or could have added a little more imagery like "green, gigantic, blood thirsty goblin". -zebrajx3

__"...always burst into a hearty laugh at the mention of the pumpkin..."-(paragraph72)__ This example of imagery contributes to the tone, facetious, because the author used content words used to make someone smile or chuckle such as "hearty" and "burst". They are not scary or frightening, they are very humorous. -zebrajx3

= DI 360 = = Tone: opimistic and mysterious = = "A drowsy,dreamy influence seems to hang over the land,and to pervade the very atmosphere."(Paragraph 4,page 1) This contibutes to the tone opimistic, because there is just like this you can feel how the people that live there most feel.There is something about Sleppy Hollow that is not right and I can just under stand that the people in Sleepy Hollow are live as if they are in a fairy tale with a twist.-rocco14 = = = = "Some say that the place was bewitched by a high German doctor,during the eraly days of the settlement;others, that an old indian chief, the prophet or wizard of his tribe, held his pow-wows there before the country was discovered by Master Hendrick Hudson."(Paragraph 4,page 1)This is for the mysterious imagery because no one really knows why Sleepy Hollow is the way it is. Some say that it is one thing and others say that it is something else. Although no one really knows, you can tell that there is something different about Sleepy Hollow.-rocco14 = = = [Dental Floss] - The words "uniform tranquility," "Sabbath stillness," "peculiar character of its inhabitants," "drowsy, dreamy influence," and "sway of some witching power," all contribute to the tone of 'Mysterious' by implying the feeling that the town is just a little bit disconnected, or different, from the rest of the world. It helps the reader understand a couple of things, including: the town isn't real, and that it //is// bewitched by something, or someone; also, the words "bewitched by a high German doctor," are obviously folklore, just like the stories and ideas the people of this town carry in their hearts and minds.

viper14- "A small brook glides through it, with just murmur enough to to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail, or tapping of a woodpecker, is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquillity."

The diction used in this sentence helps the tone of mysterious by influencing the peacefulness of the town. Normally, you would think that the town would have a tone to it, but this "drowsy,dreamy" valley is so sensative to any sound that stand out.