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Puritan Theology
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When something is altered in a burlesque way.

What is PARODY?

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For Puritans, this is a major threat to society and it is exemplified by Mistress Hibbins.

What is a WITCH?

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This character may have become a grandparent eventually.

Who is HESTER?

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This is the literary term when we encounter a story within a story. 

What is FRAME NARRATIVE?

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This is the location where the outer-most frame of the novel takes place. 

What is SALEM?

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When a non-person (an object, for example) is described in the narrative as having person-like qualities.

What is PERSONIFICATION?

200

We know from William Bradford's account of crossing the Atlantic in Of Plymouth Plantation that the Puritans were fond of people getting what they deserved, an idea that aligns with this Eastern spiritual idea.

What is KARMA?

200

This character may have physically marked himself or herself with a big red A on his or her chest. 

Who is DIMMESDALE?

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In The Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne's Dark Romanticism feels an awful lot like this other literary movement that began before Dark Romanticism and lasted longer.

What is GOTHICISM?

200
This is a slang term for a doctor, and it is based on a practice that is thankfully no longer in use.

What is LEECH?

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When Enlightenment thinking, or Age of Reason thinking, is critiqued by a literary movement that values things like emotion, imagination, feeling, nature, and individualism.

What is ROMANTICISM?

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This is the Catechism that Pearl was asked to recite in order to prove that she was being raised well by Hester.

What is THE WESTMINSTER CATECHISM?

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This is the interpretation of Dimmesdale's "A" that matches up with Hawthorne's clear obsession with the possibility that what's going on inside a person might show itself, physically, on the outside. 

What is DIMMESDALE'S "TOOTH OF REMORSE"?

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When you get only partial knowledge from a narrator in The Scarlet Letter, along with things like conjecture and doubt, it is coming from this narrative voice.

What is FIRST PERSON PLURAL?

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This is the thing that provides a distorted reflection that blows Hester's A out of all proportion. 

What is SUIT OF ARMOR?

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When Enlightenment thinking, or Age of Reason thinking, is critiqued by a literary movement that values both the natural and the supernatural, including demonic elements of the supernatural.  

What is DARK ROMANTICISM?

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Hester knew that she had done evil; therefore, she could have no faith that 

what is "SOMETHING GOOD COULD COME OF IT"?

400

This is the interpretation that our first person plural narrator dismisses to explain "The Revelation of the Scarlet Letter."

What is THE STUBBORN FIDELITY OF DIMMESDALE'S FRIENDS? 

400

When you get full knowledge from a narrator in The Scarlet Letter, it is coming from this narrative voice.

What is THIRD PERSON OMNISCIENT?

400
This is the thing that provides a perfect reflection of Pearl as she stands pointing at Hester in the forest.

What is BROOK?

500

When we the readers know something that the characters in the book don't know.

What is DRAMATIC IRONY?

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This Puritan poet was explored so that we might understand Puritan theology in a less critical light.

Who ANNE BRADSTREET?

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There is a possibility that these two passions are really the same thing.

What LOVE AND HATE?

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The number of frames in The Scarlet Letter.

What is 3?
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These two chaps executed Chillingworth's last will and testament. 

Who are GOVERNOR BELLINGHAM AND THE REVEREND MR. WILSON?