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