The Crucible Language Analysis

Throughout the passage, Knowles employs, predominantly, imagery as figurative language. For example the serenity one envisages following Gene’s description of a hypothetical grove, “A thousand miles due north into the wilderness, somewhere deep in the Arctic, where the peninsula of trees which began at Devon would end at last in an untouched grove of pine, austere and beautiful,” can be construed as an attempt to hoax the reader into empathizing with Gene and his fantasies of a divinity away from Devon and war. Within this imagery lies the use of asyndeton. In descriptions such as, “These last were past the gym, the tennis courts, the river and the stadium, on the edge of the woods which, however English in name, were in my mind primevally