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Link to //The Crucible// in Sparknotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/crucible Link to //The Crucible// text: http://www.scribd.com/doc/21067412/The-Crucible-Text Link to //The Scarlet Letter// in Sparknotes: http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/scarlet/ Link to //The Scarlet Letter// text: http://ibiblio.org/eldritch/nh/sl.html

Rhetorical Strategies and Stylistic Devices:

1) Aristotle's Stuff:

 Ethos - Appeal to person who you admire or God argument  Logos - Appeal to logic  Pathos - Appeal to emotions

2) Tone - Can be humorous, sarcastic, serious, concerned, angry, joyous, etc...

3) Methaphor

4) Analogy

5) Allusion - To any of the five senses

6) Allusion - To biblical ideas (Ex: "Betrayed by a kiss" in the "Give me liberty or Give me death" speech by Patrick Henry)

7) Irony - Opposite of what you expect to happen happens

 - Verbal Irony - Sarcasm  - Written Irony -  - Dramatic Irony - Opposite of what you expect to happen happens in a play/story

8) And More!

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