The Grammardog Guide to The House of the Seven Gablescontains 16 analytical multiple choice quizzes with a total of over 250 questions. These multiple choice questions based on text sentences from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne are excellent teaching tools, providing the basis for thoughtful, engaging activities for your students.
Figurative language establishes the mood of Gothic Romantic gloom (". . . the opaque puddle of obscurity . . ." "Poverty, treading closely at her heels for a lifetime . . . " ". . . the smile was sunshine under a thundercloud." "The vapor of the broiled fish arose like incense from the shrine of a barbarian." "The shadow creeps and creeps and is always looking over the shoulder of sunshine.").
