Figurative Language In The Scarlet Letter

Here are some
more examples of figurative language:

- Often Hawthorne compares happenings and objects to
abstract qualities. 

• In , the symbolic rosebush at the prison
  door is compared to "a token that the deep heart
  of Nature could pity and be kind to him [the prisoner who
  enters]."
• is compared to a fiend
  and calls himself this. In , he rejoices in his discovery of what is on the chest
  of the Reverendand is compared to Satan:

Had a man seen old Roger Chillinworth, at that moment of his ectasy,
he would have no need to ask how Satan comports himself when a precious human soul is lost to
heaven.

• Called "an
  imp" and "a sprite," n
  is likened to a bird by Rev. Mr. Wilson, "What little bird of scarlet
  plumage may this be?"
• Governor Billingham calls 's
  scarlet letter a "badge of shame."


• Hester declares that Pearl is her "torture."
   "See ye not....she is the scarlet letter, only capable of
  being loved,.."
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