The Devil and Tom Walker

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The Devil and Tom Walker

• Washington Irving

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Money Matters

• Freewrite for five minutes addressing the
  following
• Should people pursue wealth? Why or why not?
• How important is wealth to you?
• What limits, if any, would you put on your own
  pursuit of wealth?

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Literary Terms

• Imagery words and phrases that appeal to the
  five senses, helping you to imagine precisely
  what people, places, and events in a literary
  work are like
• In The Devil and Tom Walker imagery is used to
  describe Tom and his character traits
• Image Toms house is described as a
  forlorn-looking house that stood alone and had an
  air of starvation.
• Character Trait The dilapidated and decaying
  house shows how miserly, or stingy, Tom is when
  it comes to money and wealth

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Study Sheet for The Devil and Tom Walker
(pp.349-360) Front Back

• Literary Terms
• Write the literary term on page 349 and
• its definition
• Imagery (page 349)
• Authors Purpose (Glossary of Literary Terms)
• Omniscient Narrator (page 360)
• Readers Notebook (see p.349)
• As you read, jot down some of the images
• that describe Tom and the character trait that
• each image helps you to picture

Answer the following questions using the P.I.E.
format (Point, Information, Explanation) Think
Critically (p.360) 3 5 Extend
Interpretation (p.360) 4 Create a paragraph
answer that contains two extended
examples (Topic Sentence, Point, Information,
Explanation, Transition Word or Phrase, Point,
Information, Explanation, Conclusion Sentence)
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Literary Terms

• Imagery words and phrases that appeal to the
  five senses, helping you to imagine precisely
  what people, places, and events in a literary
  work are like
• In The Devil and Tom Walker imagery is used to
  describe the swamp as a quagmire
• Quagmire (noun) Two Meanings
• (swamp) - a soft marshy area of land that gives
  way when walked on
• (difficult situation) an awkward, complicated, or
  dangerous situation from which it is difficult to
  escape

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Literary Terms

• In The Devil and Tom Walker, Irving mixes
  sights and sounds in with the plot to deliver a
  visual image of the situation Tom finds himself
  entrapped in.
• Tom had long been picking his way cautiously
  through this treacherous forest stepping from
  tuft to tuft of rushes and roots which afforded
  precarious footholds among deep sloughs or
  pacing carefully, like a cat, along the prostrate
  trunks of trees startled now and then by the
  sudden screaming of the bittern, or the quacking
  of a wild duck, rising on the wing from some
  solitary pool.

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Imagery Writing

• Choose another setting that you can describe
  using imagery (sights, sounds, smells, tastes?,
  touch)
• Possible ideas a kitchen after a party, a
  teenagers bedroom, a garage neglected for years,
  a crowded subway train, a town after a tornado, a
  long line at the DMV, etc.
• Write a page of description of your setting.
  Include the details of your setting as they
  relate to a quagmire, a dangerous and entrapping
  situation.
• You may write seriously, humorously,
  sarcastically, etc.
• You may write as a third-person narrator with or
  without characters, or as a first-person narrator
  viewing the scene

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Imagery Writing Peer Review

• In groups of three, read your stories aloud to
  each other.
• Next, trade papers and read the paper again this
  time silently. As you read it, mark up the paper
  with the following types of comments in the
  margin
• Imagery Mark all instances of imagery (words and
  phrases) that you see in the writing. Note in the
  margins what senses that the imagery appeals to.
• Praise What do you like about the writing? What
  works well? What are some specific examples of
  things that were done well?
• Question What are some things that you did not
  understand in the writing? Are there questions
  that you have about why the author wrote the
  story the way that they did?
• Polish What could the author do specifically to
  make this writing better? What parts would you
  change and how?