There is a plethora of diction in “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow”, By Washington Irving. The Story is very Complicated with a very big variety of words used. He uses a lot of different words to go along with the passages mood and tone. The writer used complex words to show the mood like “cavernous” in paragraph sixty-two. For the word “sequestered” he could’ve used more casual words like isolated or lonely. Some words he used just didn’t fit with the tone or mood like the word “pedagogue” in paragraph twenty-three, which means teacher. Also the word “niggardly” in paragraph forty-five, when he could’ve easily said cheap or ungenerous. The words Washington Irving put in the story are intensely descripted, and make the reader feel like they are
