Definition:
Inflammatory- meaning to incite strong emotion or anger.


Example:
“The massacres at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and in the Pennsylvania countryside cannot be explained, rationalized-still less, justified- by any supposed failing of American foreign policy. It was wicked. It was depraved. It was unconscionable. It was the work of psychopaths inflamed by an evil distortion of Islam. And now we- and the Saudis- must face the harsh fact that Saudi Arabia, a nation we have long supported, is a central disseminator of the poisonous spores of fanaticism.”
“Getting the Mayor’s Messsage,” by Mortimer B. Zuckerman, U.S. News & World Report, October 29 2001.


Explanation:
The author uses word choice and imagery at every opportunity to make the reader angry towards the terrorists and their acts. Describing the terrorists as “depraved psychopaths” and calling the bombings “massacres” succeeds in making the reader hate the people responsible. The imagery of Saudi Arabia as “a central disseminator of the poisonous spores of fanaticism” further heightens this hatred.