Help please... will make the brainiest. Thank you in advance!

write a “Rip Van Winkle” story of your own, combining Washington Irving’s
story with a little H. G. Wells science fiction.

Start your story in the present day.
Have your “Rip” suddenly appear somewhere 20 years from now.
Decide how.
Clearly state two settings. Include dialogue if you like.
Decide if you will write in the first person (Using I and me) or in the third person (Using he, she, and they) to tell about the characters.
Choose some interesting conflicts to make your main character be like Rip. Decide on a plausible reason for your main character’s sudden reappearance. Decide on the changes he will experience in the world of the future.
Decide on any internal and external conflicts he will experience.

    Times grew worse and worse with Rip Van Winkle as years of matrimony rolled on; a tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use. For a long while he used to console himself, when driven from home, by frequenting a kind of perpetual club of the sages, philosophers, and other idle personages of the village; which held its sessions on a bench before a small inn, designated by a rubicund portrait of His Majesty George the Third. Here they used to sit in the shade through a long lazy summer's day, talking listlessly over village gossip, or telling endless sleepy stories about nothing. But it would have been worth any statesman's money to have heard the profound discussions that sometimes took place, when by chance an old newspaper fell into their hands from some passing traveller. How solemnly they would listen to the contents, as drawled out by Derrick Van Bummel, the schoolmaster, a dapper learned little man, who was not to be daunted by the most gigantic word in the dictionary; and how sagely they would deliberate upon public events some months after they had taken place.

    The opinions of this junto were completely controlled by Nicholas Vedder, a patriarch of the village, and landlord of the inn, at the door of which he took his seat from morning till night, just moving sufficiently to avoid the sun and keep in the shade of a large tree; so that the neighbors could tell the hour by his movements as accurately as by a sundial. It is true he was rarely heard to speak, but smoked his pipe incessantly. His adherents, however (for every great man has his adherents), perfectly understood him, and knew how to gather his opinions. When anything that was read or related displeased him, he was observed to smoke his pipe vehemently, and to send forth short, frequent and angry puffs; but when pleased, he would inhale the smoke slowly and tranquilly, and emit it in light and placid clouds; and sometimes, taking the pipe from his mouth, and letting the fragrant vapor curl about his nose, would gravely nod his head in token of perfect approbation.

Explanation:

the rhetoric device being used to persuade the audience is pathos.

i don't know what your working on like figurative language poems etc.

but i think the answer would be an informative sentence.