The Scarlet Letter
Rhetoric
Poetic Devices
Vocabulary
Quotes
100
After making plans to sail to Europe, this character was tempted to scandalize his congregation by saying and doing wicked things.
Who is Dimmesdale?
100
This indirect reference to a person, place, event, or literary work with which the author believes the reader will be familiar can strengthen the author's argument.
What is allusion?
100
Although criticized for writing for the masses, Longfellow displayed this element in his writing, especially in the work of his sonnets on Dante's Divine Comedy.
What is scholarship?
100
Fire-and-brimstone preachers like Jonathon Edwards sparked this revival of the Puritan faith.
What is the Great Awakening?
100
"So, as I knew he would feel some curiosity in regard to the identity of the person who had outwitted him, I thought it a pity not to give him a clue."
Who is Monsieur Dupin?
200
This character tries to stop Dimmesdale from ascending the scaffold at the climax of the story.
Who is Chillingworth?
200
The following quote demonstrates this rhetorical device (NOT alliteration): “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country.”
What is an epithet?
200
"Behind him lay the gray Azores..."
What is assonance?
200
This movement was based on the belief that every individual is capable of discovering higher truth on their own, beyond what they can experience through their senses.
What is Transcendentalism?
200
"―Faith! Faith!―look up to heaven, and resist the wicked one."
Who is Young Goodman Brown?
300
This is how long Hester spent in prison.
What is three months?
300
The words, “The blood of his children will curse his cowardice, who shrinks back at a time when a little might have saved the whole, and made them happy,” demonstrates this rhetorical appeal.
What is pathos?
300
'Tis Christmas Night! the snow/ A flock unnumbered lies...
What is a metaphor?
300
This literature received a "call-to-arms" to further the cause of its country and so consisted primarily of political pamphlets and stirring speeches.
What is the Revolutionary Period?
300
"Britain, with an army to enforce her tyranny, has declared that she has a right (not only to TAX) but "to BIND us in ALL CASES WHATSOEVER" and if being bound in that manner, is not slavery, then is there not such a thing as slavery upon earth. Even the expression is impious; for so unlimited a power can belong only to God."
Who is Thomas Paine?
400
This is the lie Hester tells Pearl when she explains why she wears the scarlet letter.
What is for the sake of its gold thread?
400
The following quote demonstrates this rhetorical appeal: “What signifies it to me, whether he who does it, is a king or a common man; my countryman or not my countryman? Whether it is done by an individual villain or an army of them? If we reason to the root of things we shall find no difference; neither can any just cause be assigned where we should punish in the one case and pardon in the other.”
What is logos?
400
"I flung my soul to the air like a falcon flying?"
What is a simile?
400
Believing they were God's Chosen People sent to spread their faith in the New World, this is what the Puritans saw in every event or person who helped their cause.
What is providential significance?
400
“Were I worthy to be quit of it, it would fall away of its own nature, or be transformed into something that should speak a different purport.”
Who is Hester Prynne?
500
Dimmesdale says he could not have come to know God's mercy without this person's presence in his life.
Who is Chillingworth?
500
The following quote makes an appeal to ethos through the use of this rhetorical tactic“Mr. President: No man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House."
What is acknowledgment and refutation?
500
Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard, / He tapped with his whip on the shutters, but all was locked and barred; Tlot tlot, tlot tlot! Had they heard it? The horse-hooves, ringing clear; / Tlot tlot, tlot tlot, in the distance! Were they deaf that they did not hear?
What is onomatopoeia?
500
Mystery stories which were solved through the detective's sheer use of brilliant reasoning were tales of this kind.
What is ratiocination?
500
"And so assigned to every family a parcel of land, according to the proportion of their number, for that end, only for present use and ranged all boys and youth under some family. This had very good success, for it made all hands very industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been by any means the Governor or any other could use, and saved him a great deal of trouble, and gave far better content."
Who is William Bradford?
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