... Dimmesdale's feelings of guilt and how he bears it. The feelings of torment and suffering experienced by Dimmesdale are delicately conveyed into the content of the novel by using complex diction and subordinate clauses. Hawthorne's language takes on the tone of a dream and explains Dimmesdale's emotions as if the occur in his sleep. Dimmesdale's trip to the scaffold during the night ... Reverend's thoughts. The adverb clauses used to create this image are very descriptive and reveal many thoughts of Dimmesdale. The monotonous tone that creates the image of a dream, the complicated dicti...

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... saturated through and through with the smell of cooking" (page 201). His ingenious word-painting give us a clear understanding of the thoughts in the mind of a being domineered by palpability. Diction, repetition, and alliteration prove to be Chekhov's aid in making his satire so enjoyable. We can find examples of these literary devices in his "opaque soap circles" (page 200) and ... ...

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