This is due tomorrow at 11: 59pm
as you have learned, the stories that make up a nation's mythology share several characteristics:
• they are set in the past, often in remote or exciting places and times.
• they are filled with remarkable, strange, or exaggerated characters.
• they feature incredible, heroic, impressive, magical, or mysterious events and their consequences.
• they convey a positive message about a nation or its people.
after reading washington irving's "rip van winkle," consider it as a story that create an american
mythology. then answer the following question in the form of a short essay. your essay should consist of at least
five paragraphs: an introductory paragraph, three body paragraphs, and a concluding paragraph.
how does irving incorporate at least three of the above characteristics into "rip van winkle"? what is the
impact of these characteristics on the story or on the reader’s experience of the story?

Match each excerpt to the correct stanza structure. 1. it was many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea, that a maiden there lived whom you may know by the name of annabel lee; and this maiden she lived with no other thought than to love and be loved by me. (from "annabel lee" by edgar allan poe) 2. o thou, new-year, delaying long, delayest the sorrow in my blood, that longs to burst a frozen bud and flood a fresher throat with song. (from "in memoriam" by alfred lord tennyson) 3. nature’s first green is gold, her hardest hue to hold. her early leaf’s a flower but only so an hour. then leaf subsides to leaf. so eden sank to grief,; so dawn goes down to day. nothing gold can stay. (from "nothing gold can stay" by robert frost) 4. at sestos hero dwelt; hero the fair, whom young apollo courted for her hair, and offered as a dower his burning throne, where she should sit for men to gaze upon. the outside of her garments were of lawn, the lining purple silk, with gilt stars drawn; (from "hero and leander" by christopher marlowe) quatrain couplet octave sestet