Poetic Devices: Pick a poem from THIS unit by Phillis Wheatley or Philip Freneau, and discuss two poetic devices at work in that poem. Fairytale vs. Nonfiction: Rip wakes up twenty years and has to assimilate quickly. What is Irving trying to say about the creation of America through his story's perspective from a mostly asleep main character? Looking at modern day, we have countless movies about zombies: the undead who continue to sleepwalk. Why do we depict this as horror? I argue that directors are challenging American viewers to wake up! Why are we sleeping through life? What are we missing, like Rip? And, how did "Others" (not White Europeans) have to assimilate quickly too, like Rip, to this new country?

Poetic Devices: Pick a poem from THIS unit by Phillis Wheatley or Philip Freneau, and discuss two poetic devices at work in that poem. Fairytale vs. Nonfiction: Rip wakes up twenty years and has to assimilate quickly. What is Irving trying to say about the creation of America through his story's perspective from a mostly asleep main character? Looking at modern day, we have countless movies about zombies: the undead who continue to sleepwalk. Why do we depict this as horror? I argue that directors are challenging American viewers to wake up! Why are we sleeping through life? What are we missing, like Rip? And, how did "Others" (not White Europeans) have to assimilate quickly too, like Rip, to this new country?