The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
Introduction + Context
Plot Summary
Detailed Summary & Analysis
Main Story Postscript
Themes
All Themes History and Storytelling Reality, Imagination, and the Supernatural War and Battle Consumption, Appetite, and Greed
Quotes
Characters
All Characters Ichabod Crane Diedrich Knickerbocker Brom Bones Katrina Van Tassel Hans Van Ripper Headless Horseman Storyteller
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All Symbols Head of the Headless Horseman Cotton Mather’s “History of New England Witchcraft”
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All Literary Devices Allusions Dramatic Irony Foil Foreshadowing Frame Story Genre Hyperbole Idioms Imagery Irony Metaphors Mood Personification Setting Style Tone Unreliable Narrator Verbal Irony
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by

Washington Irving
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