P-Z Flashcards
The relating speed or slowness with which a story is told or an idea is presented
What is pacing
What colony is the setting of the novel?
What is Boston
A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true
What is paradox
Why is Hester taken to the scaffold in the market place?
What is exhibiting her to the public gaze, public humiliation
The repetition of similiar grammatical or syntactical patterns
What is parallelism
The deliberate use of a series of conjunctions
What is polysyndeton
A logical fallacy that involves the creation of an easily refutable position; misrepresenting, then attacking an opponents position
What is straw man