Symbolism
This object symbolises innocence but becomes false evidence against Elizabeth.
What is the poppet.
What technique is included in the quote, "She has an arrow in you yet John Proctor."
What is Metaphor?
What literary device is used when Proctor forgets adultery when questioned?
What is Irony? Because of his affair.
Proctor has an affair with Mary Warren.
What is False? It was Abigail.
What tone does John Proctor use in the quote: "It is your poppet, is it not?"
What is Sarcasm?
What does the salt represent in act 2.
What is, repentance for his adultery, and the search for what is missing in his and Elizabeth's marriage.
What technique is included in the quote, "the magistrate sits in your heart."
What is metaphor?
What is a symbol that occurs twice in Act 2.
What is salt?
What Tone does John Proctor use in the quote: "You forget nothin' and forgive nothin'?"
What is frustrated and resentful?
This hidden object transforms innocence into supposed guilt and hysteria.
What is the needle in the poppet?
"I have gone tiptoe in this house all seven month since she is gone."
What is the metaphor, suggesting Proctor has been walking carefully around Elizabeth because of their damaged relationship?
What is Biblical Allusion
Miller uses stage directions in Act Two to show suspense, tension and awkwardness between Elizabeth and John Proctor.
What is True?
"I will fall like an ocean upon the court" John Proctor. What tone is used.
What is emotional, vengefull and righteous?
The poppet symbolises this quality before it is twisted in to false evidence of witchcraft.
What is innocence?
Identify the technique:
Mary Warren: "She'll kill me for saying that!"
What is hyperbole?
What word is missing in the quote:
"Peace. It is a _____, and no great change; we are only what we always were, but naked now." John Proctor.
What is "providence."
In Act 2 Hale's books are "weighted with authority".
What is false? Contained in Act 1.
What tone does Hale have at the end of Act 2 when talking to Proctor about Elizabeth's and Salems redemption?
Explain why the Proctor home is an important symbol in Act 2.
What is that it represents the last place of honesty and privacy before the hysteria invades every part of society, and disrupts life outside of society?
What tecnhique is used when the audience knows that Abigail is responsible for the needle in the poppet, whilst the characters believe that Elizabeth is guilty.
What is dramatic irony? Creating tension because the audience knows the truth before the characters do.
What are the techniques contained in the quote:
"Vengeance is walking Salem"
What is, metaphor, motif, personification?
Miller's use of the Proctor household as the main setting in Act 2 reduces the play's tension because the characters are physically separated from Salem.
What is False? The isolation builds into the tension and hysteria.
What is defensiveness, alliteration and disbalief.