Vocab
Visually descriptive language
What is imagery?
A slave from Barbados, belonging to Reverend Parris.
Who is Tituba?
The overseer of slaves on Frederick's plantation.
Who is Mr. Plummer?
The part of the body from which the Left-Handed twin was born.
What is the armpit?
E, P, or L? "Having graduated from Harvard and getting the highest scores on all of her exams, I know she will be an effective surgeon.”
What is ethos?
a literary device where characters, events, and settings symbolically represent abstract ideas or principles, conveying a hidden meaning beyond the literal narrative
What is allegory?
The name of the white man who Frederick believes is his father.
Who is Anthony?
A group of tribes: Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cuyuga, Seneca, and later, the Tuscarora.
What is the Iroquois League?
The amount of time "Half-Hanged Mary" survived after her attempted execution.
What is 14 years?
A situation that is understood by the audience but not grasped by the characters in the play or story.
What is dramatic irony?
The Commandment that John Proctor fails to recite to Reverend Hale.
What is "thou shalt not commit adultery"?
a historical slang term for a person of mixed Black and white ancestry; has been considered a derogatory term since the Civil Rights Movement
What is a mulatto?
The animal that dove down to bring soil up to the woman.
What is the muskrat?
Not pewter. According to John Proctor, a waste of money!
What are golden candlesticks?
A good example of this would be "I reached into the kitchen cabinet to grab some cinnamon for my cookies. I spilled it all over the floor, and had to sweep it up."
What is first-person POV?
John Proctor does not see the "light of God" in Reverend Parris.
What is the reason the youngest Proctor child is not baptised?
The kind white woman who tried to teach Frederick how to read.
Who is Mrs. Auld?
The place that the woman fell from; she was digging deep for roots to collect from The Great Tree.
What is the Sky-World?
A campaign of political repression and mass hysteria that occurred in the United States from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Led by Senator Joseph McCarthy, it was characterized by reckless, unsubstantiated accusations of disloyalty and subversion, particularly of alleged communist influence in American institutions.
What is McCarthyism?
A solitary speech in which a character is speaking to themselves.
What is a soliloquy?
The condition Elizabeth Proctor claims in court.
What is pregnancy?
The "Lady of The Lake". Mr. Johnson had recently read it when Frederick came to New Bedford.
What is the origin of "Douglass"?
The twin who "did everything as he should. He said what he meant and he meant what he said. he always told the truth, and he always tried to accomplish what was right a reasonable."
Who is the right-handed twin?
The name of Captain Auld's sloop; named after one of the Colonel's daughters
What is Sally Lloyd?