Characters
Places
Literary Devices
Puritan Beliefs
Odds and Ends
100

This character is compared to a fairy and an elf. 

Pearl
100

This is the place where Hester and Dimmesdale meet.

Forest
100

Name the device used: 'I thank you from my heart, most watchful friend...' [Dimmesdale to Chillingworth] (Hawthorne 176).

Irony
100

The normal punishment for adultery within the Puritan community would have been this.

Death
100

This is what Dimmesdale wonders if he has signed the Black Man's book with.

Blood
200

This character is pleased and claims credit for the recovery of Dimmesdale.

Chillingworth
200

This is where Pearl plays, and also what seems to divide her from Dimmesdale and her mother.

Brook
200

Name the device used: Dimmesdale is tempted three times, like Peter.

Biblical Allusion
200

Several of the Puritan women wanted to do this to put the letter 'A' on Hester's forehead.

Brand
200

This is what Pearl kisses, other than both of her cheeks, when she returns to her mother.

Scarlet Letter
300

This character is never seen in the book, but is implied to meet with the witches in the forest.

Black Man
300

This is the city where Dimmesdale returns after meeting with Hester.

Boston
300

'And will he always keep his hand over his heart' (Hawthorne 167)?

Symbolism
300

The Puritans believed that God was wrathful and felt this emotion towards them.

Anger
300

This is the country from which a recent vessel arrives.

Spain
400

This character is the sister of the Governor and a practicing witch.

Mistress Hibbins
400

This is where Chillingworth comes to check on Dimmesdale at the end of Chapter 20.

Study
400

Name the device used: 'Bring it hither!' said Hester. 'Come and take it up!' answered Pearl (Hawthorne 166).

Metaphor
400

The Puritans believed in wearing clothing of this characteristic.

Modest/Plain
400

This is the name of the Deacon which Dimmesdale encounters on the path home.

Apostle Eliot
500

On the way home from town, Dimmesdale meets a sailor of this ethnicity. 

Spanish
500

This is the building which Dimmesdale feels as if he has only seen in his dreams.

Church
500

Name the device used: 'I have a strange fancy... that this brook is the boundary between two worlds, and thou canst never meet thy Pearl again' (Hawthorne 165).

Symbolism
500

The Puritans believed that if anything happened, good or bad, it coincided with this.

God's Will
500

This is the friend of Mistress Hibbins who was hanged for murder.

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