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John Winthrop heavily depended on fear in order to keep the Puritan society.. Puritan. This tactic is seen in his speech to the members of the puritan church on the way to this new world in the 1600s. Winthrop states that the Puritans "shall be as a City upon a hill, the eyes of all people" will be upon them. In other words, he claims that as they are a new society, everyone will be looking at/to them. As so many people are watching, they "shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants,” if they "shall deal falsely with our god in this work" that they have taken. Implying that the members of this society will be punished if they represent their society and “God” improperly. Setting an indirect set of rules, and making the society more strict. Winthrop also uses allusion to emphasize his ideology in alluding the biblical "City upon a hill". As this is a speech directed to Puritans coming to America, the use of this gives credibility ...

To tell a story the “proper way", a traditional Native story isn't heavily worded because each word used holds a meaning, N. Scott Momaday said in “A Storyteller and His Art”. However, this ideal is not followed in the retold version of “The Great Vision”, originally told by Black Elk. A white man, John G. Neihardt, described with heavy imagery the voices heard by Black Elk. Saying that the voices were "so loud and clear" that they even felt real. WIth the use of imagery and repetition, the story began to feel more Americanized than Native, and alters the authenticity of the story.