The Scarlet Symbol
This red letter Hester must wear represents her sin and later her strength.
What is the scarlet “A”?
This is the name of Hester Prynne’s daughter.
Who is Pearl?
This minister is Pearl’s father.
Who is Reverend Dimmesdale?
Hester lives here after her release from prison.
What is a cottage on the outskirts of town?
The phrase “the sunshine does not love you” is an example of this device.
What is personification?
Hester removes this symbol near the end of the novel but later puts it back on.
What is the scarlet letter?
Hester names her daughter this because she was of “great price.”
What is why she is called Pearl?
Dimmesdale reveals his guilt to the crowd using this.
What is the mark on his chest?
The rosebush outside the prison symbolizes this.
What is nature’s sympathy with the condemned?
The “black flower of civilized society” is an example of this literary device.
What is a metaphor?
The scarlet letter changes to mean this.
What is "able"?
Pearl reacts this way when Hester removes the scarlet letter.
What is she cries and demands Hester put it back on?
Roger Chillingworth seeks revenge on Dimmesdale for this reason.
What is Dimmesdale is Pearl’s father?
The forest represents this for Hester and Dimmesdale.
What is a place of freedom and natural law?
Hawthorne’s reference to “Heaven’s own time” appeals to moral authority through this rhetorical strategy.
What is ethos?
This is where Chillingworth finds the scarlet letter on Dimmesdale.
What is Dimmesdale's chest?
This man convinces Governor Bellingham to let Hester keep Pearl.
Who is Dimmesdale?
This is where Dimmesdale’s climactic confession takes place.
What is on the scaffold?
The public scaffold serves this purpose in Puritan society.
What is to display the guilty as punishment?
The scarlet letter compared to a “passport” is an example of this device.
What is a metaphor?
This letter becomes Hester’s “passport into regions where other women dared not tread.”
What is the scarlet letter?
By the end of the novel, Hester and Pearl leave the colony, but this happens later.
What is Hester returns alone?
This is what happens to Chillingworth shortly after Dimmesdale's confession.
What is he dies?
The “black flower of civilized society” is a metaphor for this building.
What is the prison?
By pairing “inevitable doom” with “powerless to act,” Hawthorne uses this rhetorical strategy.
What is juxtaposition?