Who Am I?
I own a slave from Barbados. Don't judge me.
Who is Reverend Parris?
"There is either obedience or the church will burn like Hell is burning."
What is the "either-or" fallacy? (false dilemma or false dichotomy)
Abigail tells Mr. Parris: It were sport, uncle."
Sport?
Playing around.
Elizabeth tells Proctor: "There's a promise made in any bed." Whose vengeance?
Abigail vs. Proctor
Proctor to Elizabeth: "I see now your spirit twists around the single error of my life, and I will never tear it free."
This rhetorical device
What is a metaphor?
"Listen, now: if they be questioning us, tell them we danced -- I told him as much already."
Who is Abigail William?
Mr. Hale tells Rebecca Nurse: "You look as such a good soul should."
His claim illustrates the difference between THIS versus reality.
Appearance vs Reality
Parris to Abigail: "But if you trafficked with spirits in the forest, I must know it now."
Trafficked?
"Dealt with" or "got involved in."
Abigail to Parris: My name is good in the village! I will not have it said my name is soiled.
Abigail vs. Mrs. Proctor
Mr. Hale tells Proctor: "Theology, sir, is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small."
What is a metaphor? (A conceit)
"No, no, chicken blood. I give she chicken blood."
Who is Tituba?
Mr. Hale tells Tituba, "We will protect you. The Devil can never overcome a minister." His claim illustrates an appeal to THIS
Appeal to authority.
Parris to Abigail: "There is a faction that is sworn to drive me from my pulpit."
Faction?
a small group within a larger organization
Mr. Hale to Danforth: "I denounce these proceedings, I quit this court!"
Mr. Hale versus Abigail
Elizabeth tells Proctor: "She has an arrow in you yet, John Proctor, and you know it well."
Arrow? What arrow? Whose arrow?
What is an allusion?
"There is either obedience or the church will burn like hall is burning!"
Who is Mr. Parris?
Mr. Hawthorne tells Martha Corey, "If you don't know what a witch is, how do you know you are not one?"
This fallacy
Appeal to ignorance.
Abigail is characterized as strikingly beautiful, with an endless capacity for "dissembling."
What is lying?
Parris to Judge Danforth: "I can only say, sir, that I never found any of them naked..."
Parris versus himself (versus the truth)
Where Abigail walks, the crowd "will part like the sea for Israel."
These 2 rhetorical devices
Simile and allusion.
"We cannot look to superstition in this. The Devil is precise."
Who is Mr. Hale?
Mr. Hale tells John Proctor: "The man's ordained, therefore the light of God is in him."
Which fallacy?
Begging the question
Non sequitur
Rebecca to Mr. Putnam: "There is prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits."
Prodigious?
tremendous - great in size or degree.
Proctor to Danforth: "Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!
Proctor vs his conscience. Arete
Elizabeth to Proctor: "I do not judge you. The magistrate sits in your heart that judges you."
This rhetorical device.
What is personification?