Rip Van Winkle
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