I'm sure its the first one. I haven't really read the poem in a while but i can easily tell by how it's spoken.
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.
I think its A but it could be C
D, using language to express the opposite of its literal meaning.
Answer:
Bandwagon (I'm not fully sure, so sorry if I get you wrong)
Explanation: In the text the author includes that "This is today's hottest technology". Making an argument or a choice based on the appeal to popular opinion is defined as bandwagoning.
