Tuesday, November 4, 2014

What are some quotes and page numbers containing figurative language in The Scarlet Letter in chapters 19-20?Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter

Heralded as one of the greatest works of American
literature, Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is replete
with figurative language.  Here are some
examples:


Chapter
XIX


  • "Had she gathered pearls, and
    diamonds, and rubies in the wood, they could not have become her better! (figurative
    language) (paragraph 1) Pearl's beauty is such that simple flowers adorn her
    as well as gems."
    (simile)

  • "In her was visible the tie that
    united them. (metaphor--Pearl is the visible proof of the physical union of Hester and
    Dimmesdale)  (par.4)

  • "She had been offered to the
    world,...as the living hieroglyphic (metaphor), in which was revealed the secret they so
    darkly sought to hide...." "Pearl was the oneness of their being."
    (metaphor)

  • "Our Pearl is a fitful and fantastic little
    elf sometimes." (alliteration of
    /f/;metaphor)

  • "Pearl....had strayed out of the sphere in
    which she and her mother dwelt together...."
    (metaphor)

  • "'....this brook is the boundary between two
    worlds..." (metaphor)

  • "Or is she an elfish
    spirit...foridden to cross a running stream?"
    (metaphor)

  • "Thou canst leap like a young deer!"
    (simile)

  • "in the mirror of the brook"

  • "flower-girdled and sunny image of little
    Pearl" (figurative language)


Chapter
XX


  • "the Old
    World
    " (metaphor for England and
    Europe)

  • "...a ship...roamed over its
    surface with a remarkable irresponsibility of character
    ."
    (personification)

  • "No 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
    true." (figurative language, metaphor in "face" as putting on the
    appearance)

  • "a single day
    had operated on his consciousness like the lapse of years."
    (simile)

  • "I am not the man
    for whom
    you take me!  I left him yonder in
    the forest,..." (figurative language)

  • "He absolutely
    trembled and turned pale as ashes"
    (simile)

  • "this terror in his
    heart
    "  (metaphor for
    fear)

  • "You carry it
    off like an old hand!"
    (simile)

  • "Another man had
    returned out of the forest; a wiser one..."
    (metaphors)

  • "administered by a friendly
    hand
    " (metonymy)

  • "I hardly think to tarry
    with my flock..." (metaphor for
    congregation)

  • "A good man's prayers are
    golden recompense
    !" (metaphor)

  • ..."and
    only wondered that Heaven should see fit to transmit
    (personification) the grand and solemn music of its oracles
    (metaphor) through so foul and
    organ pipe as he. (
    simile)

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