The Crucible
Slaughterhouse Five
Julius Caesar
Characters
Rhetoric
100

Abigail is caught dancing here, thus beginning the witchcraft hysteria in The Crucible.

What is the woods?

100

Billy Pilgrim becomes "what" in time?

What is unstuck in time?

100

This celebration is taking place when the play begins.

What is the Feast of Lupercal?

100

This character is a troubled Roman who betrays Caesar for what he believes is the good of Rome.

Who is Brutus?

100

Persuading by establishing credibility or character is called…

What is ethos?

200

This duty in court gives Mary Warren a false sense of power.

This duty in court gives Mary Warren a false sense of power.

200

According to the Tralfamadorians, war is...

What is inevitable?

200

Caesar is warned about this ominous date.

What is the Ides of March?

200

A failed science fiction writer who influences Billy Pilgrim’s perception of time and reality.

Who is Kilgore Trout?

200

Antony repeatedly calling Brutus “an honorable man” is an example of this rhetorical strategy.

What is verbal irony or pathos?

300

This quote—“Vengeance is walking Salem”—speaks to what central theme of the play?

What is mass hysteria or revenge?

300

What promise does the narrator make to Mary O’Hare about his book?

What is “not glorify war”?

300

What is Brutus’s justification for killing Caesar?

What is Caesar’s ambition?

300

This character begins as a confident expert on witchcraft but grows doubtful as the trials progress.

Who is Reverend Hale?

300

When Brutus appeals to the logic of Caesar’s ambition being dangerous, he is using…

What is logos?

400

The play parallels which real-life political event of the 1950s?

What is the Red Scare or McCarthyism?

400

The barbershop quartet's song is ironic because it causes this emotional reaction.

What is trauma or Billy’s emotional breakdown?

400

What tactic does Antony use in his funeral speech to sway the crowd?

What is reading Caesar’s will/appealing to emotion?

400

This character is stabbed last in the assassination scene.

Who is Brutus?

400

Abigail’s manipulation of the courtroom in The Crucible primarily uses this rhetorical appeal.

What is pathos?

500

Why does John Proctor refuse to hand over his signed confession at the end of the play?

What is to protect his name/honor?

500

How does Vonnegut use time travel and science fiction elements to explore the destructiveness of war?

Open-ended/critical thinking response

500

This is Cinna's profession, the one that was killed by the angry mob, that is.

What is a poet?

500

This soldier swears revenge on Billy Pilgrim and represents the cruelty of war.

Who is Paul Lazzaro?

500

In Slaughterhouse-Five, how does Vonnegut subvert traditional rhetorical devices to make a point about the futility of war?

Open-ended/critical thinking response

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