Literary Devices: The Crucible Act 3
  1. Foreshadowing:
    • You will confess yourself or you will hang.¨ (Danforth)
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  2. Imagery:
    • ...we live no longer in the dusky afternoon when evil mixed itself with good and befuddled the world.¨ (Danforth)
    • Her claws, sheˇ¦s stretching her claws.¨ (Abigail)
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  3. Alliteration:
    • No, I love God; I go your way no more. I love God, I bless God. (Mary Warren)
    • For them that quail to bring men out of ignorance, as I have quailed, and as you quail now¨ (Proctor)
    • „I cannot lie no more. I am with God, I am with God.¨ (Mary Warren)
  4. Allusion:
    • “Mary, remember the angel Raphael -- do that which is good and –“ (Proctor)
    • “Mary. Remember the angel, what he say to the boy. Hold to it, now; there is your rock. (Proctor)
    • “Now remember what the angel Raphael said to the boy Tobias.”(Proctor)
  5. Irony:
    • “I judge you not, sir. I am ready to hear your evidence” (Danforth)
    • “I judge nothing.” (Danforth)
    • “Do that which is good, and no harm will come to thee.” (Proctor)
  6. Logical Fallacy:
    • “I have seen marvels in this court. I have seen people choked before my eyes by spirits; I have seen them stuck by pins and slashed by daggers.” (Danforth)
    • “But witchcraft is ipso facto, on its face and by its nature, an invisible crime, is it not?” (Danforth)
    • “Might it be that here we have no afflicting spirit loose, but in the court there were some?” (Danforth)
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