Cotton Mather is a Puritan and American minister who strongly opposed witches. He believed that they were associates or influenced by the Devil. As a man of religious literacy, he explained in various ways how to not be influenced by these witches through the work of literature and speeches. Cotton Mather explains how horrid witches and their witch craft are. They creep and hide from the shadows so they won't be spotted. As they do that, they blend in with the crowd, and just watch. They are delighted by the sights they see.
The assertion by Cotton Mather holds various types of rhetoric devices he had used. Specifically, he used the rhetoric device, Irony. By using irony, his quote was depicted as hypocrisy considering that he is a Puritan using the language he hates the most. His quote sounds as if he was casting a spell like a witch that he detests, which is irony. The effect on the audience is that they will think differently of Mather. To use the language of something you hate is like eating mangos that you strongly dislike. This quote can lead to confusion upon the audience as well.
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