Nathaniel Hawthorne & Symbolism

A symbol is...

• a person, place, thing, or place that has meaning in itself but also stands for something more than itself.
• something that stands for something specific.
• a feeling that you get from an object, person or place.
• nothing really important.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the symbolic significance of this symbol?

• A book filled with religious stories.
• faith, God, religion.
• Death, darkness, sadness, race, politics.
• A book of stories of the future.

What is the literal meaning of this symbol?

• good luck
• St. Patrick's day
• A green, four leaf clover from a plant
• Leprechaun

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CCSS.RI.11-12.7

CCSS.RI.8.7

CCSS.RI.9-10.7

CCSS.RL.11-12.7

CCSS.RL.9-10.7

What is a parable?

• A story of ordinary life events.
• A long poem written in rhyme.
• a short, usually simple story based on ordinary life events which a moral lesson is drawn.
• A long story based on events from normal life, from which a moral lesson is drawn.

Define inanimate

• n. believeability
• n. strong dislike
• adv. thoughtfully or seriously
• adj. lifeless

Obscurity means...

• adj. lifeless
• n. darkness
• n. wickedness
• adj. deliberately attracting notice

Iniquity can be defined as "deliberately attracting notice"?

• True
• False

Define ostentatious

• adj. deliberately attracting notice.
• adv. thoughtfully or seriously.
• n. strong dislike.
• n. believability.

True or False.  Plausibility is defined as believability?

• True
• False

The main character in "The Minister's Black Veil" is

• Reverend Mr. Hooper, who is the Parson of the story.
• The Reverend Mr. Hooper who is the physician in the story.
• The Reverend Mr. Hooper, who is the the sexton in the story.
• Goodman Gray of the sexton.