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Setting Who Said It? Go Figure Literary Elements

Row 1, Col 1 Hale’s hometown. Where is Beverly?

1,2 The town where it is rumored that riots have begun arising, prompting Abigail to flee town. Where is Andover?

1,3 Danforth says Proctor’s confession must be written and signed so it can be displayed here. What is on the church door?

1,4 When Proctor returns home after a long day of work, he does this, which symbolizes how his marriage to Elizabeth is lacking savor/ flavor at that point in time. What is adds salt to the soup Elizabeth has cooking?

1,5 The town and year in which the play is set. What is 1692 Salem?

2,1 “You drank a charm to kill Goody Proctor.” Who is Betty Parris?

2,2 “Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you… and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down!” Who is Abigail?

2,3 “You think that is God's work that you should never lose a child and I bury all but one?” Who is Ann Putnam?

2,4 “I must tell you, sir, I will be gone every day now. I am amazed you do not see what mighty work we do.” Who is Mary Warren?

2,5 “But you must understand, sir, that a person is either with this court or he must be counted against it. There will be no road between.” Who is Danforth?

3,1 What is a simile? “The Devil is precise; the marks of his pretense are definite as stone.”

3,2 What is personification? Proctor tells Elizabeth, “a funeral marches round your heart.”

3,3 What is a simile? “I came into this village like a bridegroom to his beloved bearing gifts of high religion; the very crowns of holy law I brought, and what I touched with my bright confidence, it died; and where I turned the eye of my great faith, blood flowed up.”

3,4 Hale says, "Theology is a fortress; no crack in a fortress may be accounted small." What is a metaphor?

3, 5 What is hyperbole? “Your justice would freeze beer.”.

4,1 Elizabeth is a pure woman, so much that there is even some coldness in her sexual relationship, while Abigail is a liar and a harlot, making these characters ____________. What are foil characters?

4,2 What is dramatic irony? Hale’s statement to Proctor that “…the world goes mad, and it profit nothing you should lay the cause to the vengeance of a little girl.”

4,3 What is an allusion? When Proctor calls Hale Pontius Pilate for trying to wash his hands of the guilt of the trial.

4,4 A crucible is a kind of bowl used to heat up chemicals or metals in alchemy. Philosophically, the term crucible can refer to activities that are very difficult, but act as a refining or hardening process. In the play, Proctor is "purified” and regains his integrity and standing in the town, by refusing to confess, making the title a _______. What is a symbol?

4,5 Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as a(n) _________ for his observations of how fear ruled America in his own time, in the McCarthy trials. What is an allegory?