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Setting
Syntax & Diction
Literary Devices
Themes
Characters
100
Where does the book take place?
Where is Boston, Massachusetts
100
What literary element does Nathaniel Hawthorne's sentences most commonly show?
What is asyndeton/polysyndeton
100
What does the scarlet letter on Hester's chest symbolize?
What is adultry
100
What is the overall theme of this novel?
What is to stay true in marraige
100
What was the name of Hester's daughter?
What is Pearl
200
What era did this book take place?
What is 17th century
200
What type of diction does Nathaniel Hawthorne most commonly use?
What is dark (or another synonym)
200
What literar device is shown below? "In either case, there was very much the same solemnity of demeanour on the part of the spectators, as befitted a people among whom religion and law were almost identical, and in whose character both were so thoroughly interfused, that the mildest and severest acts of public discipline were alike made venerable and awful. Meagre, indeed, and cold, was the sympathy that a transgressor might look for, from such bystanders, at the scaffold"
What is polysyndeton
200
What is the life lesson the reader learns from Dimmesdale?
What is the truth will set you free
200
What do people think Pearl is?
What is the devil/witch/wild child
300
Where does Hester hide while raising Pearl?
Where is a small cottage
300
Describe the syntax of Nathaniel Hawthorne's sentences?
What is long and wordy
300
What is the most common literary devices shown in the book?
What is Polysyndeton/asyndeton/symbolism
300
How was the man vs. environment theme portrayed in ths novel?
How is Hester struggled to fit in among the common people due to her sin.
300
Who was Hester's husband?
Who is Roger Chillingsworth
400
Where was Hester publically shamed?
Where is the Market-place
400
How does Nathaniel Hawthorne's diction affect how the reader understands the characters life?
How is, it causes the reader to feel as if the characters are living in a world of sin and distrust.
400
How was Dimmesdale's crime ironic?
How is that, he had committed adultery with Hester even though it is forbidden for priests to preform intercourse.
400
How was the man vs. man theme portrayed in this novel?
How is Chillingsworth sought to find the man who had committed adultery with his wife.
400
With whom did Hester Prynne commit adultery with?
Who is Arthur Dimmesdale
500
Where did Dimmesdale die?
Where is on the scaffold
500
How does Nathaniel Hawthorne's syntax affect how the reader understands the characters life?
How is, it causes the reader to feel as if the characters are doing something for a very long time, due to the fact that each thing being described by the author is described in a ton of detail.
500
How is Dimmesdale's death ironic?
How is that, he had carved a letter A into his chest just like Hester wore on her bosom.
500
How was the man vs. himself theme portrayed in this novel?
How is, Dimmesdale tried to cope with his sin, deciding on whether or not he should come clean about it.
500
What did Hester find on Dimmesdale when he died?
What is the letter A burned into his chest