The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

by Washington Irving

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Characters

Ichabod Crane

Brom Bones

Katrina Van Tassel

Headless Horseman

The Headless Horseman

Plot

Ending

Ichabod Crane

The Bridge

The Headless Horseman

Van Tassels' Party

Setting

Sleepy Hollow

Tarrytown

Hudson River

Themes

Superstition

Gullibility

Literary Devices

Metaphor

Irony

Similes

Symbolism

Headless Horseman

The Pumpkin

Quotes

She Was a Blooming Lass of Fresh Eighteen; Plump as a Partridge; Ripe and Melting and Rosy-cheeked as One of Her Father's Peaches, and Universally Famed, Not Merely for Her Beauty, but Her Vast Expectations

Genre

Romanticism

Authorship

Washington Irving