Vocab
What does manifest mean?
Clear or obvious to the eye or mind.
Who wrote the Speech to the Virginia Convention?
Patrick Henry
Who is Pearl in relation to Hester?
Her daughter.
What are the 6 romantic values?
Nature, intuition, imagination, inspiration, individualism, and idealism.
What does bust mean?
A sculpture of a person's head, shoulders, and chest.
What does tenuous mean?
Very weak or slight.
Who wrote To My Dear and Loving Husband?
Anne Bradstreet
Who was Hester's former husband?
Roger Chillingworth.
Who wrote this: Nothing further then he uttered—not a feather then he fluttered—Till I scarcely more than muttered, “other friends have flown before—On the morrow he will leave me, as my hopes have flown before?
Edgar Allen Poe
What does evoke mean?
Bring or recall to the conscious mind.
What does usurp mean?
Take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force.
Who wrote this: What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or the descendant of an European, hence that strange mixture of blood, which you will find in no other country?
J. Hector St. John de Crèvecœur
What was Mistress Hibbins accused of being?
A witch.
Who wrote this: Vainly the fowler’s eye
Might mark thy distant flight, to do thee wrong,
As, darkly seen against the crimson sky,
Thy figure floats along?
William Cullen Bryant
What does amenable mean?
(of a person) open and responsive to suggestion; easily persuaded or controlled.
What does gesticulate mean?
Use gestures, especially dramatic ones, instead of speaking or to emphasize one's words.
Who wrote this: But, on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it; as those who aim at perfect writing by imitating the engraved copies, though they never reach the wished-for excellence of those copies, their hand is mended by the endeavor, and is tolerable while it continues fair and legible?
Benjamin Franklin
What bad news does the ship captain tell Hester
That Chillingworth is coming with them.
Who wrote this:
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
Let each new temple, nobler than the last?
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
What does insidious mean?
Proceeding in a gradual, subtle way, but with harmful effects.
What does consecration mean?
The action of making or declaring something, typically a church, sacred.
Who wrote this: A dark mist lay over the Black Hills, and the land was like iron. At the top of a ridge I caught sight of Devil’s Tower upthrust against the gray sky as if in the birth of time the core of the earth had broken through its crust and the motion of the world was begun?
N. Scott Momaday
What were the 3 theories by the townspeople of how the Scarlet Letter appeared on Dimmesdale's chest?
2. Chillingworth drugged him
3. His remorse and pain
Who wrote this: Whoso would be a man, must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness?
Ralph Waldo Emerson
What does diametrically mean?
Completely opposed.