Group+9

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 Prompt: Read Chapter 22, “The Procession,” from The Scarlet Letter. Then write an essay analyzing how Hawthorne uses rhetorical devices, including irony and imagery, syntax, organization of details, and other rhetorical devices. =====

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 Nathaniel Hawthorn uses various rhetorical devices inorder to enhance the theme of guilt and repentence. =====

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 "Fate might be heard, nearer, nearer, nearer!"- Nearer is repeated in order to create a feeling of tension and anxiousness, as if fate is getting louder and closer. It adds to the idea that fate in inevitable. =====

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 "His sensitive temperament was invigorated by the loud and piercing music, that swelled heavenward, and uplifted him on its ascending wave." Diction is used like invigorated and piercing. "Swelled heavenward" is used to show how the music moves upward by a wave, giving it a powerful and almost god-like quality. =====

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 "We may all see it in the sunshine; and it glows like a red flame in the dark." Glows like a red flame in the dark is a =====

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 "Its volume seemed to envelop her with an atmosphere of awe and solemn grandeur." Chooses word like "envelop" and "solemn grandeur" =====

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 "Her whole orb of life, both before and after, was connected with this spot, as with the one point that gave it unity." The spot is a symbol for =====

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 "A passage seemed to open for the minister and herself out of their labyrinth of misery."- Labyrinth of misery is a figure of speech used to show Hester and Dimmesdale's seemingly endless misery. The passage is their way out. =====

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 It is ironic that Dimmesdale is being presented an award while Hester is being cast a sinner when they have both comitted the same sin  apayzant kjohnson mweir  per.3  .=====