Are there similes, metaphors, allusions, personification, or parallel constructions used in chapter 13 of Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter?

The narrator says, of
,

The links that united her to the rest of humankindlinks
of flowers, or silk, or gold, or whatever the materialhad all been broken. Here was the iron
link of mutual crime, which neither he nor she could break.

Here, the "links" created between people by their relationships are compared,
via metaphors, to flowers, silk, and gold (as weaker, more fragile
kinds of connections), as well as to iron, which describes the incredibly strong and powerful
connection that exists between Hester andas a result of their shared sin/crime.

The narrator also uses when he describes Hester's actions
whenever people in town are sick or in need of assistance. He says, "None so self-devoted
as Hester when pestilence stalked through the town." This gives pestilence, another word
for disease, the human ability to stalk, or purposefully stride, among the people and affect
them negatively.

The narrator uses a to
describe the letter as a symbol of hope...