Characterization2

====** List the adjectives that Irving uses to describe Ichabod Crane. List the adverbs that he uses to describe Ichabod Crane's actions. How do the connotations of the adjectives and adverbs Irving uses convey the author's attitude toward Ichabod Crane? ** ​ ====

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= **__Carebears__** = ​ ​ Irving uses many adjectives to describe Ichabod Crane such as "loose", "tall", "animated", "lanky", "thankful", and "kind". Irving aso uses words like "authoritative" to describe Ichabod's voice while teaching, "spindle neck", "huge ears", "narrow shoulders", "long arms and legs", "long snipe nose", and "large green glassy eyes" to give you a better picture of Ichabod. "His sharp elbows stuck out like grasshoppers'", "the motion of his arms was not unlike the flapping of a pair of wings", and "a small wool hat rested on the top of his nose" were other examples. --BATTLE LLAMAS!!!!!

Irving uses adverbs to describe Ichabod Crane's actions using words like "successively", "sheepishly", "potently", "snugly", "dearly", "sprawling", "narrowly", and "scarcely sufficient". He also uses adverbs when Ichabod's doing something, "Suddenly he heard a groan", "..dash briskly", "..kicked lustily", "..plunged headlong", "verily feared", "dimly glaring", "strolled idly", and Irving also uses adverbs to describe adjectives, such as, "wonderfully gentle" and "completely carried". Hypnotick

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Irving uses some adjectives that describe Icahabod physical features such as "exceedingly lank", "narrow shoulders", "long legs and arms", "head was small", "huge ears", "large green glassy eyes", "long snipe nose", "spindle neck."Some other adjectives that describes Ichabod in the passage are "huge feeder", "round bellies", "sharp elbows struck out", "his advances in a quiet and gentle-insinuating manner","Dazzled in his eyes", "his devouring mind's eye", "his chivalrous spirit", "Ichabod Crane had a soft and foolish heart", "he was an mixture of small shrewdness and simple credulity", "Ichabod,who sojoured", "was a matter of little vanity to him", "from his half itinerant life", "he was kind", "his appetite was marvellous", "were equally extraordinary", "his caprious swallow", "as the enraptured Ichabod", "he beheld daintily trussed up", "he seldom sent", "wiser man", "pliability and perseverance in his nature", "yeilding but tough", "rough chivalry in his nature", "Ichabod was too conscious", "he was too wary to give him an opportunity", "Ichabod had became the object of whimsical persecution to bones", "he was domiciliated", "his viciousness", "he was gaunt and shagged", "he was a conscientious man", "was foremost at all race."he was a man to be thwarted in his amoura."--wordgirl-- The connotations of the adverbs and adjectives convey the authors emotions as a pitiful tone because Ichabod Crane is a nice man, but he isn't handsome like most of the protagonists in other stories, he is "exdingly lank" as the author says to say he is skinny, but the author also stated that Ichabod's "appetite was marvelous" which shows that he eats alot of food and is still skinny, and every part of his body seems to be disformed such as "narrow shoulders", "long legs and arms", and "long snipe nose and spindle neck." And in the story he is trying to win a young girl against the protagonist Brom Bones who is the town hero and Ichabod doesnt have a good chance at winning the girl he wants due to his apperance which can create a feeling of pity for him. --iamveryawesome-- The connotations of the adverbs and adjectives convey the authors emotions as a austere tone because Ichabod Crane isn't a very handsome man or a appealing one either since one of the adjectives he uses says that he has a "long, snipe nose large green glassy eyes and huge ears.Ichabod is also a very simple, tacky man because he doesn't dress very well since he doesn't have alot of money that's why he wants to have Katrina all for himself in order for him to get the money he needs.Ichabod is a very serious man especially when it comes to eating because in the story Irving says he had the"Dilating powers of an anaconda." Ichabod is also a very strict man when it comes to school since he expects his student to be well behaved.He is also a very solemn man that is another reason why he wants to be with Katrina,but there is another person that is after her his name is Brom Bones, he is the protagonist of the story because he is the town bully and is nothing like Ichabod.These are all the main reasons why the author created a austere tone for Ichabod.77752 The author conveys Ichabod Crane in a pitiful yet humorous tone by portraying Ichabod as a very sorry excuse for a man, saying he is "lanky" and "long". The picture he paints of Crane is a very funny one, because he would look so silly, "narrow shoulders", "snipe nose", "hands and legs that dangled out of his sleeves", and "huge ears." But, at the same time Kinickerbocker is saying Crane is pathetic and pitiful through adjectives, he's also saying he's "gallant", "kind", and "thankful." Yet, in the next couple of paragraphs the author says that Ichabod is "poor", "dismal" and "unfortunate." I believe that what Knickerbocker is doing throughout the short story is convey to the readers that Ichabod Crane is very unfortunate when it comes to his looks, but a t the same time show that he has many sides to his soul. - BattleLlamaFromGuam

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