Help with The Scarlet Letter?

Question:Can anyone help on examples of metaphors, mood, and tone in The Scarlet Letter? I have to read and mark it for 10th grade english, and I have some examples of metaphors, but need lots more. Also, I need help with the plot (exposition, rising action, and falling action). I know the climax and resolution because of sparknotes and cliffnotes, btu they didn't help much with everything else (that I've listed).

Answers:
Mood in a story is how the story makes you feel. Mood is also evoked by connotation -- look for words that have a certain feel or certain texture to them.

Tone, according to Wiki, is ... is a literary technique, that is a part of composition, that encompasses the attitudes toward the subject and toward the audience implied in a literary work. Tone may be formal, informal, intimate, solemn, sombre, playful, serious, ironic, condescending, or many other possible attitudes. The tone of a piece of work can be found in many ways. Without tone, a piece of literature would have no emotion, and therefore be very boring.

For plot, go through each chapter and outline or list the most important plot elements. From there, make a /\ story graph. Bottom left represents the beginning, the point of the upside down V represents the climax, and the right side of the upside down V to the end represents the resolution. Then go back through and pick out the major points, and you will have a plot timeline.

As for metaphors, you are going to have to go back through and read carefully. Remember a metaphor is an equation. One thing = another.

General information on The Scarlet Letter from Wikipedia:

* 1 Plot introduction
* 2 Plot summary
* 3 Major themes
o 3.1 Sin
o 3.2 Past and present
o 3.3 Civilization versus the wild
* 4 Literary significance & criticism
* 5 Allusions/references from other works
o 5.1 Literature
o 5.2 Music
* 6 Film, TV or theatrical adaptations
* 7 Allusions/references to actual history, geography and current science
* 8 Present day references to The Scarlet Letter
* 9 Release details
* 10 See also
* 11 References
* 12 External links

Also try www.sparknotes.com
www.gradesaver.com
www.enotes.com/scarlet

Do a search on "scarlet letter" and you'll come up with these and a lot more. Just remember: don't plagiarize, and attribute all your sources. Remember that your school and public libraries can also help. This is just a start online.

Good luck. Cheers, K
all right~ why don't you tell what metaphors you've found so far in your reading of the novel?

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