Rhetorical Devices The Crucible Repetition There is a prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it. – Metaphor I never thought you had so much iron in you. – Metaphor Why, Rebecca, we open up the boil of all our troubles today. – Repetition That’s deep, Mr. Parris, deep, deep! – Metaphor How may they mouse frighten you, Elizabeth? – Allusion Where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel. – Hyperbole Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. – Metaphor Were I stone I would have cracked for shame this seven month. – Hyperbole I will curse her hotter than the oldest cinder in hell. – Rhetorical question And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? – Allusion Man, remember, until an hour before the devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. – Antithesis But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or against it. – Allusion Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. – Parallelism You saw her scream, she howled, she swore familiar spirits choked her; she even testified – that Satan, in the form or women now in jail, tried to with her soul away. Repetition It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits. – Repetition How do you call heaven! Whore! Whore! – Hyperbole An ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of these statutes. – Allusion God have not empowered me like Joshua to stop this sun from rising. – Hyperbole A very ape would weep at such calamity. – Repetition How may I damn myself? I cannot, I cannot. –
The Crucible Rhetorical Devices Repetition – There is a prodigious danger in the seeking of loose spirits. I fear it, I fear it. Metaphor – I never thought you had so much iron in you. Metaphor – Why, Rebecca, we open up the boil of all our troubles today. Repetition – That’s deep, Mr. Parris, deep, deep! Metaphor – How may they mouse frighten you, Elizabeth? Allusion – Where she walks the crowd will part like the sea for Israel. Hyperbole – Oh, Elizabeth, your justice would freeze beer. Metaphor – Were I stone I would have cracked for shame this seven month. Hyperbole – I will curse her hotter than the oldest cinder in hell. Rhetorical question – And why not, if they must hang for denyin’ it? Allusion – Man, remember, until an hour before the devil fell, God thought him beautiful in Heaven. Antithesis – But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or against it. Allusion – Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias. Parallelism – You saw her scream, she howled, she swore familiar spirits choked her; she even testified that Satan, in the form or women now in jail, tried to with her soul away. Repetition – It were only sport in the beginning, sir, but then the whole world cried spirits, spirits. Repetition – How do you call heaven! Whore! Whore! Hyperbole – An ocean of salt tears could not melt the resolution of these statutes. Allusion – God have not empowered me like Joshua to stop this sun from rising. Hyperbole – A very ape would weep at such calamity. Repetition – How may I damn myself? I cannot, I cannot.
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