Read this excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter:

"Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro"

Which detail indicates that this work is a romance?

A.

Without any effort

B.

he shrieked aloud

C.

an outcry that went pealing through the night

D.

reverberated from the hills in the background

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Bug

11 June, 09:46

Read this excerpt from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter:

"Without any effort of his will, or power to restrain himself, he shrieked aloud: an outcry that went pealing through the night, and was beaten back from one house to another, and reverberated from the hills in the background; as if a company of devils, detecting so much misery and terror in it, had made a plaything of the sound, and were bandying it to and fro"

Which detail indicates that this work is a romance?

A.

Without any effort

B.

he shrieked aloud

C.

an outcry that went pealing through the night

D.

reverberated from the hills in the background

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Darren Wilson · Answer 1

The detail that indicates that this work is a romance is "an outcry that went pealing through the night "

This part of the excerpt talks about extreme and intense situations for the character, this can only be compared with love and so for with romance which is always described as one if not the most intense of the human emotions.

The other options don't show as much intensity in words as the one selected above.