1. When a story refers to another piece of literature (like when someone says he was like the boy who cried wolf, those love birds are like Romeo and Juliet, it's like a David and Goliath match up, or The Simpsons refer to "Tell Tale Heart") it is called:

the correct answer option for this is: false.

explanation:

we are given the following statement 'hawthorne thought of himself as a novelist' which is false.

the truth is that nathaniel hawthorne thought of himself as a romancer, rather than a novelist.

though it is ironic of him of him to consider himself a romancer rather than a novelist despite of the innocent women killings in the salem witch trials which occurred in colonial massachusetts between 1692 and 1693 .

if this is referring to star wars, han shot first.