What is Dark Romanticism?
This religious movement sought to purify their community based on a fusion of religion and the government in colonial America.
What is Puritanism?
At the end of the story, Goodman Brown returns to this place, forever changed by his experience.
What is Salem?
This is a figure of speech where a word or phrase is applied to an object or action without using “like” or “as”
What is a metaphor?
This is the sequence of events within a story.
What is plot?
Tom Walker encounters this character, who offers him a deal in exchange for his soul.
Who is the Devil/Old Scratch?
This Dark Romantic author is known for his exploration of guilt and sin; he is the decedent of a judge who executed women during the Salem Witch Trials.
Who is Nathanial Hawthorne?
This setting is often depicted as a place of danger and temptation, representing the unknown and the moral wilderness Brown must navigate.
The pattern in which a poem follows and creates repetition throughout the text.
What is a Rhyme Scheme?
This literary device is characterized by the struggle between two opposing forces within a text.
What is Conflict?
This place, where Tom Walker meets the Devil, symbolizes moral decay and hidden sin found within him and other mortal beings.
What is the swamp?
The belief that God has already chosen who will be saved or damned is based on whether or not they lived a devout lifestyle.
What is Predestination?
This infamous 17th-century event in Salem, Massachusetts, where fear, hysteria, and the belief in inherent evil led to the persecution and execution of innocent people.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
These are objects or images that represent larger ideas within a text.
What is Symbolism?
These story elements reflect the author’s attitude and the atmosphere created in the text.
Tom becomes wealthy by working in this profession, exploiting people with high interest rates.
What is a usurer?
These three key elements are often found within works written in the Dark Romanticism subgenre, such as literature composed by Nathanial Hawthorne.
What is greed, sin, and moral complexity?
This object falls from the sky during the meeting in the forest, convincing Goodman Brown of his wife's involvement in the ritual.
What is a pink ribbon?
This is the title of the poem we read for this unit. Its definition is "feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong."
What is Penitent?
This phrase is used in a storytelling arc to signify the "tying up of loose ends."
What is Denouement?
These three Dark Romantic themes are used in “The Devil and Tom Walker."
The rise of social media has created this trend that involves public figures being judged and condemned for their past actions, sometimes without due process or forgiveness. This connects to Dark Romanticism through the theme of societal judgment.
What is cancel culture?
His journey leads Brown to lose this (physically and mentally), not only in his religion and community but also in human goodness, which symbolizes his descent into mistrust, isolation, and despair.
What is Faith?
At the poem's end, the main character puts these objects on her person to symbolize her pretended identity as a pure, innocent young woman free of sin.
What is a ribbon in her hair?
These are the five main stages of a storytelling arc that authors use to organize the plot in a format that is both functional and satisfying to the reader.
What are Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution?
Tom Walker finds this object in the forest, which symbolizes his wife's greed and eventual demise.
What is her heart and her liver wrapped in an apron?