Beginnings: The Crucible
The setting of The Crucible
What is 1600s New England?
Who wrote the essay “Self-Reliance”?
A cultural movement celebrating Black art, literature, music, and identity during the early 1900s.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
The historic event does Vladek survive in Maus
What is the Holocaust?
A contrast between what the audience knows and what characters know is called this.
What is dramatic irony?
the manipulative accuser who helps drive the witch hysteria in The Crucible
Who is Abigail Williams?
American Transcendentalists valued these ideas.
Individuality and connection with nature
Place these events first: Slavery, Civil War, or Great Depression?
What is slavery?
In Maus, Jewish people are represented as this animal
What are mice?
Tone
What is the author's attitude?
This character struggles with guilt, reputation, and honesty throughout the play.
Who is John Proctor?
What did many American Romantics and Transcendentalists criticize or reject?
Conformity, materialism, and blind obedience to society
Which character in A Raisin in the Sun wants to become a doctor?
Who is Beneatha?
A single framed image showing one moment in the story of a graphic novel.
What is a panel?
What is the difference between a theme topic and a theme statement?
A theme topic is a subject (love, revenge, freedom), while a theme statement explains the author’s message about that subject.
How did Puritan beliefs contribute to the Salem Witch Trials?
Their strict religious beliefs, fear of sin, and intolerance for dissent created paranoia and suspicion that fueled accusations.
What is Emerson suggesting in the quote, “Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members”?
Society pressures individuals to give up independence and individuality.
The belief that people can achieve success, stability, and opportunity through hard work.
What is the American Dream?
The purpose of captions in graphic novels
What is they provide narration or information directly to the reader?
This literary device compares two unlike things using “like” or “as.”
What is a simile?
Why were accusations of witchcraft difficult to stop once they began?
Fear, personal grudges, lack of evidence, and pressure to conform caused hysteria to spread quickly.
In “Because I Could Not Stop for Death,” Death is treated like a person riding in a carriage. What literary device is this?
What is personification?
How does A Raisin in the Sun explore the American Dream?
The Younger family struggles with poverty, racism, and personal goals while trying to improve their lives and achieve stability.
How does Vladek’s past trauma affect his present behavior?
He becomes fearful, controlling, frugal, and deeply affected by survival habits from the Holocaust.
What literary device is present in this phrase: “The wind whispered through the trees”?
What is personification?