A | B |
Hester | sentenced to wear the scarlet letter |
Mistress Hibbins | makes references to the Black Man |
Pearl | name of the main character's child |
Chillingworth | the minister's physician |
Dimmesdale | the town's revered minister |
Pearl's father | Dimmesdale |
Hester's relationship to Chillingworth | wife |
how Hester earned a living | sewing |
times Dimmesdale was on the scaffold with Pearl and Hester | 2 |
What did Pearl do when the minster kissed her in the forest. | wiped the kiss off |
seen on Dimmesdale's chest when he died | scarlet letter |
sought revenge on Dimmesdale | Chillingworth |
wrote the Scarlet Letter | Nathaniel Hawthorne |
When the minister lay dying, he asked for a kiss from.... | Pearl |
Hester appealed to him when she thought her child would be taken away.... | Dimmesdale |
physical background | setting |
sequence of events | plot |
struggle between opposing forces | conflict |
main character | protagonist |
character that changes | dynamic character |
character that remains the same | static character |
central idea that gives the work meaning | theme |
character that is in conflict with another | antagonist |
highest point of interest | climax |
narrative in which the characters, places, and other items are symbols | allegory |
"Wilt thou stand here with mother and me, tomorrow noontide?" | said by Pearl |
"Thou shalt forgive me!" | said by Hester |
"I...whom you so reverence and trust, am utterly a pollution and a lie!" | said by Dimmesdale |
"Thou hast escaped me!" | said by Chillingworth |
"What does the scarlet letter mean?" | said by Pearl |
"Wilt thou go with us to-night? There will be a merry company in the forest." | said by Mistress Hibbins |
"How am I to live longer, breathing the same air with this deadly enemy?" | said by Dimmesdale |
"She is my happiness!--she is my torture, none the less!" | said by Hester |
"So thou thinkest the child will love me?" | said by Dimmesdale |