final questions
what was hawthorne's primary motive in writing fiction?
what is expose the truth about society?
what does the prison door represent?
whatg is severity of puritan law
the narrator tries to determine the depth of the pit by
what is dropping a fragment of masonry
acquisitive
what is concerned with acquiring wealth a
what novel containing elements of magic, mystery, horror, ghosts, strange houses, and other strange occurrences
what is gothic novel
what is the setting of the scarlet letter?
what is boston, 1650
what does the forest stand for?
what is wild, uninhibited place where passion can flourish
eventually the narrator is enabled to see the extent and aspect of the prison by
what is a wild sulphurous luster
arrogate
what isto claim or take without right
what novel that presents a chronicle or life of a person of low degree who lives by his wits; usually contains satirical comments on society
what is picaresque novel
how might the scarlet letter be classified as a work of literature?
what is romance or allogory
nature as means of spirituality and finding oneself
what is romanticism
how does the narrator use rats to free himself from beneath the pendulum
what is he rubs meat on his bandage and then lets the rats chew on it.
banal
what is hackneyed, common, overused
what is the story whose actions and characters are symbols representing other values, ideas, or meanings
what is allegory
how did hawthrone have ancestral ties to the salem witch trials?
what is one of his ancestors was a judge, 1962
Which sentence best paraphrases the following line? "the....dread sentence of death-was the last of distinct accentuation which reached my ears."
what is the death sentence was the last thing i heard clearly
how does the narrator use rats to free himself from beneath the pendulum
what is he rubs meat on his bandage and then lets the rats chew on it.
belabor
what is to work excessively
what is the satirized; treated a serious subject ridiculously or a trivial subject as important?
what is burlesqued
what do the characters' actions and fates imply in hawthorne's writings?
what is ethical lessons that he wants to give to readers
Why do the torturers provide food and water when the narrator first succumbs to fatigue?
what is to prolong the torture
Who finally rescues the narrator?
what is General Lasalle
carping
what is tending to find fault naggily; nagging criticism
The first American novel was written by?
who is William Hill Brown