Emotive language is a literary device. The deliberate choice of words to influence or to elicit emotion. Who ever has wrote that used emotion 'she needed', 'attention and warmth', to evoke emotion and catch the reader.
Puritans as a political entity largely disappeared, but Puritan attitudes and ethics continued to exert an influence on American society. They made a virtue of qualities that made for economic success—self-reliance, frugality, industry, and energy—and through them influenced modern social and economic life.