Rip Van Winkle Worksheet
Directions: Put answers on a separate sheet of paper. Use
complete sentences. Incorporate the question as part of the answer (i.e. The setting of the story is…).
- Describe the setting of
the story.
A) explain where the story takes place. LA5
B) Make a guess as to what year
the story begins. LC3
- Describe the main
character. LA5
- Conflict is an
important element in all stories. What is the main character’s major
conflict in “Rip Van Winkle?” LA5
- How does the main character
usually solve conflicts? LC1
- This story uses satire.
Washington Irving describes serious things in a ridiculous way in order to
poke fun at those things. Give three examples of how he makes fun of
government / politics.
LA5
- Hawthorne refers to a book of
magic and some rather strange objects in his story, “Dr. Heidegger’s
Experiment.” How are the uses of spirits in “Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment”
and “Rip Van Winkle” similar and/or different? LA7
- How does the difference
in question 6 affect the tone of each story? LT8
- Irving describes Rip in a
positive way, but his description of Dame Van Winkle is very negative.
Does Irving’s description of female characters seem fair? LT10