The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
By Irving using the characterization, irony, tropes, and dreams, Irving could bring The Legend of Sleepy Hollow to reality. The use of characterization helped make the character, story’s backstory, and characters’ personality be more meaningful and help the story to be more structural. The author used irony to add a plot twist and gave the audience as the plot twist happened. The tropes of sleeping and dreams helped Irving to make the legendary superstition of the Headless Horseman come like a nightmare for the Sleepy Hollow because Sleepy Hollow was pictured as a good town without secrets or evil. The main character, Ichabod, made the dramatic irony more powerful because only a few knew what really happened to
