Rip Van Winkle

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Summarize what happens between the time Rip sets out and the time he returns to the village

25 years has passed and everything has changed.

Location of Rip Van Winkle

Along the Hudson River in the Catskill Mountains

Pestilent

Annoying; troublesome.

Bark

Any boat, especially a small sailing boat

country

Area around the Catskills

comely

Attractive, pretty

Washington Irving

Author of Rip Van Winkle

Wallet

Bag for carrying provisions

Why do Rip and his wife have such a stormy marriage?

Because she criticizes everything he does and Rip doesn't stand up for himself.

Declined

Bent or sank downward

Pound

British unit of money

metamorphosed

Changed

Doublets

Closefitting Jackets

Flagons

Containers from liquids with a handle, narrow neck, spout and sometimes a lid.

How do Dame Van Winkle's personality and Rip's personality differ?

Dame Van Winkle is critical and loud, Rip doesn't confront her behavior.

Quaffed

Drank in a thirsty way.

Hollands

Drink made in the Netherlands.

Countenance

Face

Visages

Faces

Grizzled

Gray

Precipitation

Great speed.

Appalachian family

Group of mountains extending from southern Quebec in Canada to northern Alabama

akimbo

Hand on hip, with elbow pointing outward

Sugar-loaf hat

Hat shaped like a cone

How did Rip Van Winkle find relief from his wife?

He and Wolf escaped fromt eh labor of the farm and clamor of his wife by taking his gun and strolling away into the woods.

How Rip Van Winkle replied to his wife's henpecking

He only had one way of replying - by saying nothing.

Describe the great error in Rip's character

He strongly disliked profitable labor.

Fancy

Imagination

Lackluster

Lacking brightness, dull

Babylonish jargon

Language he could not understand.

red nightcap

Liberty cap, used by colonists to symbolize their freedom from Great Britain.

Billious-looking

Looking cross or bad-tempered.

Galligaskins

Loosley fitting

Urchin

Mischievous boy.

Antony's nose

Mountain on the Hudson River

Addled

Muddled or confused

Intelligence

News

Incomprehensible

Not able to be understood

Domestic

Of the home and family

Fain

Old fashioned word meaning "glad".

How is Rip's life different when he wakes up?

On his return, everything has drastically changed. The village has grown much larger, new houses stand in place of old ones, and a Yankee hotel occupies the spot where the old Dutch inn once stood. The people are different, too. Gone are the phlegmatic burghers, replaced by active, concerned citizens. Rip returns as an alien to a place that once considered him important; he discovers that life has passed on without his presence.

Impending

Overhanging

Roysters

People who are having a good time at a party.

tory

Person who supported the British during the American Revolution.

Gambol

Play, folic.

Virago

Quarrelsome woman

Flemish

Referring to the former country of Flanders in northwest Europe

Melancholy

Sad, gloomy

Termagant

Scolding

Shagged

Shaggy or rough

How Mrs. Van Winkle treated Rip Van Winkle

She henpecked him, continually dinning in his ears about his idleness, his carelessness and the ruin he was bringing on his family. Morning, noon and night.

Hanger

Short sword that hangs from the belt

Jerkin

Short, close fitting jacket worn in the 16th and 17th centuries

Martial

Suitable for War

Tartar's lance

The Tartars were one of the Mongolian tribes that invited Europe about 700 years ago; these warriors used lances, which are long, heavy spears.

Peter Stuyvesant

The last governor of New Netherland, a Dutch colony, before its as taken over by the English in 1664 and renamed New York.

Why does Rip go for a walk in the mountains?

To get away from his wife and her henpecking.

Stony Point

Town on the Hudson River where a Revolutionary War battle was fought in 1779

Gable Fronts

Triangular wall shapes where two roof slopes meet

Federal or Democrat

Two political parties

Fowling piece

Type of shotgun for hunting wild fowl or birds.

Within a few years

Until recently, this story was written during the early part of the 19th Century (early 1800s)

Wistfully

With longing

Rip Van Winkle's Dog

Wolf


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