Puritan Plots
Quotable Quotes
Figurative Language / Rhetorical Strategies
Frugal Facts
Mystery
100
This is why Pearl does not jump across the brook to her mother when called.
What is the fact that she is not wearing the scarlet letter?
100
Name the character who said it, and explain the significance of the quote: "Well, well, we must needs talk thus in the daytime! You carry it off like an old hand! But at midnight, and in the forest, we shall have other talk together!"
Who is Mistress Hibbins? She says this to Arthur. She represents his conscience mind questioning his thoughts and feelings about his past and his future.
100
"And the melancholy brook would add this other tale to the mystery with which its little heart was already overburdened,"
What is personification?
100
This is how the sea captain knew Hester prior to her booking passage with him.
What is the fact that she was a "Self-enlisted Sister of Charity"?
100
This is a required class for all professional football players.
What is ballet?
200
Pearl's wild, unruly behavior causes Dimmesdale to compare her to this.
What is a witch?
200
Name the character who said it, and explain the significance of the quote: "He should not nod and smile at me, for all that,--the black, grim, ugly-eyes old man!"
Who is Pearl? She is talking about the evilness she sees and feels when near Roger Chillingworth. She sees his inherent evil.
200
"There was the Bible, in its rich old Hebrew, with Moses adn the Prophets speaking to him,"
What is Biblical allusion?
200
This is what Mistress Hibbins serves as for the characters of this story.
What is their conscience?
200
This is where Mrs. Fuller graduated from high school.
What is Bandy's High School?
300
This is the final temptation or impulse Rev. Dimmesdale has before meeting with the sea captain and Mistress Hibbins.
What is to teach bad words to Puritan children?
300
Name the character who said it, and explain the significance of the quote: "there was no one place so secret,--no high place nor lowly place, where thou couldst have escaped me, --save on this very scaffold!"
Who is Roger Chillingworth? He says this to Arthur Dimmesdale to reveal once and for all that his place was to torment the preacher; yet, the preacher's confession changed this.
300
"It would have been impossible to guess that this bright and sunny apparition owed its existence to the shape of gloomy gray"
What is antithesis?
300
This is what Dimmesdale means when he says that he and Hester "violated [their] reverence for each other's soul."
What is the fact that they did not consider respecting their Heavenly vows to obey God?
300
This was Mrs. Gordon's main sport/activity in high school.
What is cheerleading?
400
This is the secret Hester learns from the sea captain.
What is the fact that Roger is planning to go away with Hester and Arthur?
400
Name the character who said it, and explain the significance of the quote: "We must not talk always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest."
Who is Hester? She is trying to keep Pearl quiet and calm when Pearl asks about Arthur Dimmesdale, wondering if he is the one who kissed her in the forest.
400
"A party of Indians--in their savage finery of curiously embroidered deer-skin robes, wampum-belts, red and yellow ochre, and feathers, and armed with the bow and arrow and stone-headed spear"
What is imagery?
400
This is what Chillingworth planned to do to Dimmesdale slowly and painfully.
What is torture?
400
This teacher won the NC state science fair in both 6th and 7th grades.
Who is Mrs. Steeves?
500
This represents ultimate dramatic irony in the final chapter.
What is the fact that Dimmesdale confesses on the scaffold, providing himself a ending with freedom from guilt and a new sense of peace, while Hester does not see this death as the happy ending expected.
500
Name the character who said it, and explain the significance of the quote: "The law we broke!--the sin here so awfully revealed!--let these alone be in thy thoughts!"
Who is Arthur Dimmesdale? He says this a few more final lines to Hester to rid the notion in her head that they can ever reunite--even in the afterlife.
500
"This vocal organ was in itself a rich endowment;"
What is metaphor?
500
Hawthorne makes it seem as if Dimmesdale is tempted by the devil to do how many malicious things prior to the Election Day sermon?
What is 4?
500
This is the most popular sport in the world.
What is soccer?
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