The Scarlet Letter Test will Thursday, Oct. 17 / Friday, Oct. 18
This test will be an AP-style test (multiple-choice and free response questions). The multiple choice
questions will have five answer choices each. You will be allowed to use your rhetorical devices packet.
The passages from the book on the test will be on the test.
Here are some vocabulary terms to know (some of these are in your packet, others aren’t).
verisimilitude
Ann Hutchinson (know who she was)
mondegreen
cuckold
leech (definition as used in The Scarlet Letter)
litotes
Free Response Questions, general themes (you’ll choose 1 out of 4):
-dramatic irony re: Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, character development
-how a particular episode can serve as a climax of the story (the passage is given)
-sense of realization / revelation for a character that comes too late
-Hawthorne’s attitude toward the Puritans and his characters
The Scarlet Letter Test will Thursday, Oct. 17 / Friday, Oct. 18
This test will be an AP-style test (multiple-choice and free response questions). The multiple choice
questions will have five answer choices each. You will be allowed to use your rhetorical devices packet.
The passages from the book on the test will be on the test.
Here are some vocabulary terms to know (some of these are in your packet, others aren’t).
verisimilitude
Ann Hutchinson (know who she was)
mondegreen
cuckold
leech (definition as used in The Scarlet Letter)
litotes
Free Response Questions, general themes (you’ll choose 1 out of 4):
-dramatic irony re: Dimmesdale and Chillingworth, character development
-how a particular episode can serve as a climax of the story (the passage is given)
-sense of realization / revelation for a character that comes too late
-Hawthorne’s attitude toward the Puritans and his characters