Write the correct degree of comparison for the word given in parentheses.
example: the comparative form of hard is harder.

curt gave his speech of all the class. (convincingly)

Read this excerpt from the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne and complete the sentence that follows. she had wandered, without rule or guidance, in a moral wilderness; as vast, as intricate and shadowy, as the untamed forest, amid the gloom of which they were now holding a colloquy that was to decide their fate. the author uses the point of view in the excerpt.