This is
Jeopardy!
Symbolism
and Figurative
Language
Character &
Setting
Themes and
Motifs
Make you
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Final Jeopardy
Make
Your
Wagers
The Category is…
Hawthorne’s Use of
Romanticism
As noticed by Pearl, this aspect of nature does
strange things when it is around Hester.
Fifteen
on
WhatSeconds
is lightIs(sunlight)?
Time
Up!the Clock
Symbolism: 100
Time is Up!
The rose bush is symbolic of this
What is hope?
Symbolism: 200
Time is Up!
An example of irony, this place is wide open but
also private
What is the forest?
Symbolism: 300
Time is Up!
This represents heavenly judgment
What are “eyes” and/or the scaffold?
Symbolism: 400
Time is Up!
Pearls name represents this
The price Hester paid for her sin?
Symbolism: 500
Time is Up!
The following is an example of:
Shame, Despair, Solitude! These had been her
teachers,—stern and wild ones,—and they
had made her strong, but taught her much
amiss
What is personification?
Characters & Setting: 100
Time is Up!
This character is a hypocrite
Who is Dimmesdale?
Characters & Setting: 200
Time is Up!
This setting represents the secrecy and evil pacts
What is the forest?
Characters & Setting: 300
Time is Up!
This character is the essence of freedom
Who is Pearl?
Characters & Setting: 400
Time is Up!
Both these characters give in to acts of evil. Who
are they and what evil do they become consumed
by?
Who is Chillingworth and revenge? And
Dimmesdale and sinning?
Characters & Setting: 500
Time is Up!
This setting is the scene of greatest shame, as
well as that of greatest repentance
What is the scaffolding?
Theme/Motif: 100
Time is Up!
It had the affect of a spell, taking her out of the
ordinary relations with humanity and
enclosing her in a sphere by herself.
What is Isolation or the Supernatural?
Theme/Motif: 200
Time is Up!
She wanted—what some people want throughout
life—a grief that should deeply touch [Pearl] and
thus humanize and make her capable of sympathy.
What is compassion?
Theme/Motif: 300
Time is Up!
man for any considerable period can wear one
face to himself and another to the multitude,
without finally getting bewildered as to which
may be the true
What is identity, isolation, hypocrisy?
Theme/Motif: 400
Time is Up!
What Motif is present here:
the two passions seem essentially the same, except
that one happens to be seen in a celestial
radiance and the other in a dusky and lurid glow.
What is Light vs. Dark?
Theme: 500
Time is Up!
The links that united her to the rest of human
kind—links of flowers, or silk, or gold, or
whatever the material—had all been broken.
What is isolation?
Psychological Ideas: 100
Time is Up!
Pearl is compared to an elf or fairy-child
throughout the novel. What will humanize
Pearl? And what element of nature symbolizes
this?
Pearl must suffer a grief to make her capable of sympathy in
order be made human. The brook is symbolic of the suffering
Pearl must endure. The brook is described to be melancholy,
sounding like a sad child.
Psychological Ideas: 200
Time is Up!
Describe Hawthorne’s connection to the
Puritans and his attitude towards their beliefs
and practices.
Hawthorne’s ancestors were Puritans. He was embarrassed of
their actions during the time period that resulted in the
shaming and execution of many people. He wrote this novel in
response to this connection.
Psychological Ideas: 300
Time is Up!
Why is Chillingworth's revenge against
Dimmesdale so drawn out?
Chillingworth wants to inflict as much physical and mental and
anguish to Dimmesdale as possible for turning Hester into the
victim she is today.
Psychological Ideas: 400
Time is Up!
Describe Hester's connection to the scarlet letter and why
she refuses to stop wearing it.
Hester chooses to continue to wear the letter because she is
determined to transform its meaning through her actions and her
own self-perception. Society tries to reclaim the letter’s symbolism
by deciding that the “A” stands for “Able,” but Hester resists this
interpretation. The letter symbolizes her own past deed and her
own past decisions, and she is the one who will determine the
meaning of those events.
Psychological Ideas: 500
Time is Up!
In a way, Pearl is a part of Hester that has been taken
away from her. Describe two of Hester’s old personality
features that were shown through Pearl.
Pearl represents innocence, freedom, and radicalism. Hester
used to be innocent before she had Pearl, Hester used to be
care-free before she had Pearl, and Hester used to be a radical
risk-taker before she had Pearl.