Washington Irving: "The Devil and Tom Walker" - Foreshadow

Question 1

foreshadowing

Answer 1

• author’s use of clues to prepare reader for events that will happen later in a story

Question 2

In “The Devil and Tom Walker,” the theme or message Irving is conveying in the following passage is
Paragraph 36: She had probably attempted to deal with the black man as she had been accustomed to deal with her husband; but thought a female scold is generally considered a match for the devil, yet in this instance she appears to have had the worst of it

Answer 2

how dreadful is an overbearing woman

Question 3

The underlined portion of the passage below from “The Devil and Tom Walker,” uses the literary device of
Paragraph 5: Tom had long been picking his way cautiously through this treacherous forest, … startled now and then by the sudden screaming

Answer 3

foreshadowing

Question 4

what message or theme does irving convey in the following passage of “The Devil and Tom Walker”?
paragraph 19: since the red men have been exterminated by you white savages, I amuse myself by presiding at the persecutions of Quakers and Anabaptists; I am the great patron and prompter of slave-dealers and the grand-master of the Salem witches

Answer 4

religious, white men are really savages, persecutors, and slave-dealers, presided over by the devil

Question 5

what method of characterization does irving use in paragraph 34 of “The Devil and Tom Walker” to reveal Tom Walker’s feelings about wealth?

Answer 5

dialogue

Question 6

in the following passage of “The Devil and Tom Walker,” irving reveals his feelings concerning
paragraph 40: …the devil being extremely anxious for the increase of usurers, looking upon them as his peculiar people

Answer 6

usurers