Protagonist of the story, a hard working, well respected farmer. He feels guilty for a recent indiscretion.
Who is John Proctor?
100
Abby drank this as a charm to kill Goody Proctor
What is blood?
100
Comparing something using like or as
What is a simile?
200
Slave from Barbados. She is the original scapegoat.
Who is Tituba?
200
The Witch expert of Eastern Massachusetts
Who is Rev. Hale?
200
This is the town our play is set in.
What is Salem Village?
200
a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable
Example "The curtain of night"
What is a metaphor?
300
She has been "sick" in bed and people believe she has been bewitched.
Who is Betty?
300
Wealthy landowner who does not like Rev. Parris. He uses his influence to try and control Parris.
Who is Thomas Putnam?
300
Reverend Parris caught the girls doing this in the woods
What is dancing and conjuring spirits?
300
Details earlier in the story that hint to something that happens later
What is foreshadowing?
400
She had seven children die in child birth.
Who is Mrs. Putnam?
400
She is one of the girls in the group. She was described as a "fat sly girl of 18". Reverend Parris saw her take her clothes off. It was not very Puritan of her at all.
Who is Mercy Lewis?
400
Abby lost her job because of this.
What is her affair with John?
400
Applying human like traits to inanimate objects
What is personification?
500
An elderly woman known for her charitable and Christian ways. Some people in the town don't like her because of her moral superiority.
Who is Rebecca Nurse?
500
She is one of the girls that was in the woods. But "she wasn't dancing or doing anything. She was just watching!"
Who is Mary Warren?
500
The year our play is set in.
What is 1692?
500
a thing that represents or stands for something else, especially a material object representing something abstract.