Literary
devices
Rhetorical Language
Crucible Background Review
100
an author's choice of words
What is diction
100
a persuasive appeal to the emotions of an audience
What is pathos
100
A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in Salem, Massachusetts in 1692
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
200
speaker's attitude toward the subject they are writing about
What is tone
200
a persuasive appeal to logic/reason
What is logos
200
a period of general fear of communists
What is the red scare
300
the way words are put together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences
What is syntax
300
a persuasive appeal using one's credibility /reputation
What is ethos
300
a condition in which a large group of people exhibit physical and emotional symptoms, such as anxiety or display irrational behavior
What is mass hysteria
400
use of any element of language (sound, word, or phrase) more than once
What is repetition
400
an example of this rhetorical appeal: "You should do your homework because it will help to improve your grade, and help you to graduate high school"
What is logos
400
The Red Scare was hardest on which group of people? (members of what profession)
What are writers/entertainers?
500
to place different things together in order to create an interesting effect or to show how they are the same or different
What is juxtaposition
500
the language of a work and its style, words often highly emotional, used to convince or sway an audience
What is rhetoric
500
Salem Village was this type of religious society
What is Puritan?
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