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Cemetery and Prison

The two practical needs from chapter one that the founders set aside land for.

The Women

Among the audience members at the scaffold, showed the least amount of compassion toward Hester in general.

Death

What Hester's punishment should have been.

Reverend Dimmesdale

During Hester's time on the scaffold, this is what the baby's attention is drawn to.

Earthly

How Hester describes the baby daddy of her daughter to her daughter.

"He bears no letter of infamy, wrought into this garment, as thou dost, but I shall read it in his heart."

Chillingsworth when he vows to find the man who Hester slept with.

An Elf

This is what Hester thinks Pearl looks and acts like.

Woman in the Crowd

"Ah, but let her cover the mark as she will, the pang of it will always be in her heart."

Reverend Dimmesdale

"She will not speak! Wondrous strength and generosity of a woman's heart! She will not speak!"

Roger Chillingsworth

"I am a stranger and have been a wanderer, sorely against my will. I have met with grievous mishaps by sea and land, and have been long held in bonds among the heathen-folk, to a southward, and I am now brought hither by this Indian, to be redeemed out of my captivity."

The Narrator

"It may serve, let us hope, to symbolize some sweet moral blossom, that may be found along the track, or relieve the darkening close of the tale of human frailty and sorrow."

The Reason Hester Doesn't Go Back to England

She feels as though she must serve out the punishment for her sin.

The "A" Symbolic Meaning

It is symbolic of her loss of identity and the way the town sees Hester.

Pearl's Response to Mr. Wilson

"I was plucked by the rose bush by my mother's prison door."

Chillingsworth and Dimmesdale

"roommates."

The Habit of Reverend Dimmesdale to keep his hand over his heart.

Pearl establishes a connection between this and her mother's scarlet letter.

A Devil

The figure Chillingsworth begins to look more and more like by the end of the book.

Delusions

Hester's impression of Pearl is fueled by her own guilt and fear, rather than reality.

Chillingworth's

The fiend-like face that Hester most likely saw in the small black mirror of Pearl's eye.

Pitying and Condescending

The attitude of the narrator toward Hester in the above passage.

Portrait

The word choice that DOES NOT work to emphasize that Hester feels Pearl is a "devil".

Sinful Outcast

The towns people view Hester as this even though they purchase the goods she makes.

Harmful Games

The kinds of games the Puritan children play with Pearl.

Hester

"She is my happiness! She is my torture..."

Hester

"Speak thou for me...I will not lose the child."

Her daughter

Hester's only treasure.

False

Hester once loved Chillingsworth, but fell out of love with him when he was gone.

Panicked and Discombobulated

The description of Reverend Dimmesdale during Hester's interrogation.

Sin Reader

When Hester looks into the eyes of people who stare at her scarlet letter, she feels as though she can discern these from onlookers themselves.

Lenient

Pearl's discipline was this instead of strict, puritanical discipline.

Plead for a New House

This is what Hester and Pearl DO NOT do when they go to the governor.

Mistress Hibbins

Executed a few years after the events of the novel conclude.

A rosebush

Plant that is immediately outside the door of the prison where Hester is kept at the beginning of the novel.

The 1600's

The century that the story of Hester Prynne is set in.

Chapter 9

Rumor has it that Reverend Dimmesdale is being haunted by Satan in the form of Roger Chillingworth.

Governor Bellingham

A hypocritical Puritan leader; "He walked in front and appeared to be showing off his land and explaining his planned improvements."

Hester's Excuse to Visit Governor Bellingham

To return an embroidered pair of gloves.

Hester's Actual Reason to Visit Governor Bellingham

To learn the truth about a rumor that she had been hearing.

Allusion

"We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts."

Rhetorical Question

"Is this the part of wise men, engaged in great and arduous struggle for liberty?"

Anaphora

"We have petitioned; we have remonstrated; we have supplicated; we have prostrated ourselves before the throne, and have implored its interposition to arrest the tyrannical hands of the ministry and Parliament."

Repetition

"...if we mean not basely to abandon the noble struggle in which we have been so long engaged...we must fight! I repeat, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of hosts is all that is left us!"

Juxtaposition

"Are fleets and armies necessary to work of love and reconciliation?"

Juxtaposition

"I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it."

Allusion

"Suffer not yourselves to be betrayed with a kiss."

Asyndeton

"The battle, sir, is not the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave."

Minor Premise B

Talking does not achieve results.

Patrick Henry's Urge to his Colleagues

To declare war and risk death for freedom.

Allusion

"Four score and seven years ago..."

Anaphora

"But in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow — this ground."

Parallelism

"— and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Allusion

"...our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Allusion

"— that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

Juxtaposition

"It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take the increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion..."

Alliteration

"...our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."

Juxtaposition

"As a final resting place for those who died here, that the nation might live..."

Main idea of section 3

From honoring the dead to a rebirth of the nation.

President Lincoln

Would disagree against the claims that the causes of emancipation and preserving the Union are independent of each other.

Simile

"...as with rivers so with nations."

Anaphora

"They were peace men...they were quiet men...they showed forbearance...they believed...with them...with them..."

Parallelism

"To side with the right, against the wrong, with the weak against the strong, and with the oppressed against the oppressor!"

Repetition

"America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

Parallelism

The over excessive use of commas in the section of "what to a slave is the Fourth of July?"

Metaphor

"He is a bird for the sportsman's gun."

Imagery

"The ear-piercing fife and the stirring drum unite their accents with the ascending peal of a thousand church bells."

Antithesis

"For it is not light needed, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake."

Thesis of "WSFJ?"

America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

Best Conclusion of the Syllogism in WSFJ

What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being? The manhood of the slave is conceded."

Juxtaposition

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

Metaphor

"We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."

Hyperbole

"As in so many past experiences, our hopes had been blasted, and the shadow of deep disappointment settled upon us."

Allusion

"Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension...will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to the majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood."

Anaphora

"...when you have seen vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers at will and drown your sisters and brothers...when you have to concoct an answer for a five year old son who is asking: Daddy, why do white people treat colored people so mean?"

Juxtaposition

"Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."

Antithesis

"One has not only a legal, but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."

Antithesis

"So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends."

Metaphor

"Let us all hope that the dark clouds of racial prejudice will soon pass away...brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."

Antithesis

"Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with."

Noble

Instead of noblemen, let us have "" villages of men.

Morning Star

The sun is but a "".

Columbus

Be a "" to whole new continents and worlds within you, opening new channels, not of trade, but of thought...

Simplicity

"" "" ""!

Classics

Men sometimes speak as if the study of "" would at length make way... but the adventurous student will always study ""...For what are the "" but the noblest recorded thoughts of man?

Books

"" are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations.

Alive

To be awake, is to be "".

Castles

If you have built "" in the air...

Drummer

...perhaps it is because he hears a different "".

Deliberately

I went to the woods to live "".

His Dreams

...that if one advances confidently in the direction of ""...

Nature

Let us live one day as deliberately as "".

Immortal

...we are mortal, but in dealing with truth we are ""...

Life

It is the work of art nearest to "" itself.

Milky Way

Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the ""?

Solitude

I never found the companion that was so companionable as "".

Universe

The "" is wider than our views of it.

Suicide

...envy is ignorance, that imitation is ""...

Misunderstood

Ah, so you shall be sure to be ""... is it so bad then, to be ""? Pythagoras was ""...to be great is to be ""...

Humility

"" like darkness reveals the heavenly lights.

Tradition, conformity

How worn and dusty then, must be the Highway of the world, how deep the ruts off "" and "".

Railroad

We do not ride upon the ""; it rides upon us.