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A. The speaker is saying that she and her peers should be allowed to handle the punishments for people like Hester Prynne. She thinks this because they would band together as a group and be all on the same page in their punishment, rather than leaving it up to the magistrate--whose punishment she does not think adequately fit the crime Hester committed.
Answer:
Personification, because it is giving human like qualities to unliving things, "Nature" cannot truly wakeup and sleep.
Explanation:
For 5 C and D could work
For 6 it is D
For 7 is A
And 8 is D
