The Scarlet Letter

What metaphors are used in The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne?

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Examples of metaphors from The Scarlet Letter...

She had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest.

Had a man seen old Roger Chillingworth, 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.

"some black trouble of the soul"

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The Scarlet Letter