Danforth needed a confession because the rule was that if they did not confess, they were hanged. If they did not confess and Danforth decided not to hang them, the town would become angry because 12 others were already hanged for not confessing.
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The connotative word for me is PITIFULLY or pitifully young. This means very young and it refers to the woman in the text.
It would seem that the words used invoked negative emotions because the narrator is saying that the girl is very young to be married. It would seem as though the narrator is questioning the rightness of the bride's decision of getting married at a very young age.
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Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis: "A <span>lung disease contracted from the inhalation of very fine silica particles, specifically from a volcano; medically, it is the same as silicosis."
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