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What is Allusion?
a reference to something outside a literary work an author uses to help explain or illustrate something
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What is Restatement?
the expression of the same previous idea in different words to clarify or emphasize
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What is slippery slope?
scares someone by making them think it will lead to worse things
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Why did Abigail drink the potion in the woods?
to kill elizabeth, she was selfish and wanted john all to herself
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What church did they both come from?
the Anglican Church
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What is Anaphora?
deliberate repetition of the first part of a sentence to generate a particular impact
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What is Rhetorical Question?
questions used to emphasize or to highlight a point.
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What is faluse cause?
assumptions, opinions, and timing all influence our applying causes to events
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Why did Reverend Hale stand against the girls?
he thought they were lying
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Why did the pilgrims come to America?
to break away from the Church
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What is Antithesis?
two opposite ideas are put together to create a conflict
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What is hasty generalization?
when you assume something based on one case
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What is begging the question?
when someone ignores an important assumption in an argument
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Why did Abigail accuse Mary of witchcraft?
she wanted the attention off of her so people would forget the accusations made against herself
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What happend to people that were sick?
the healthy took care of the sick, even ones they werent close with
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What is Parallelism?
use of the same grammatical structure
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What is appeal for false authority?
when you use something unauthorized as evidence
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What is the either or argument?
presents only two choices when more choices are often available
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Why did Mary Warren rejoin the girls?
she felt threatned after the girls claimed they saw her as a bird in the courtroom
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What group did most of the literature from that time come from?
The Puritans
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What is Repetition?
repetition of words or phrases to generate the desired effect
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What is equivocation?
when a term has two different meanings and causes a change in the meaning
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What is false analogy?
compares two things that are very different
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Why did John Proctor confess to the affair?
to discredit Abigails accusation against Elizabeth
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What did the Puritans believe about the forest?
they believed it was the "devils place"
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