Crucible
This character is the Reverend of Salem and the father of Betty, one of the afflicted girls.
Who is Reverend Parris?
This character is the modern-day equivalent of Prospero from Shakespeare’s The Tempest.
Who is Felix Phillips?
This character is the rightful Duke of Milan and the protagonist of The Tempest.
Who is Prospero?
This journalist is the main character of Good Night, and Good Luck, known for his opposition to McCarthyism.
Who is Edward R. Murrow?
This style of writing aims to convince the audience to adopt a particular point of view.
What is persuasive writing?
Bang, tick-tock, moo...
What are examples of onomatopoeia?
The play is set in this Puritan village during the year 1692.
What is Salem?
Felix Phillips was forced out of his role as the artistic director of this theater festival.
What is the Makeshiweg Festival?
The magical spirit who serves Prospero and longs for freedom.
Who is Ariel?
The network where Edward R. Murrow worked and broadcasted his anti-McCarthy segments.
What is CBS?
Writing which uses 'I' and 'me'.
What is first-person perspective?
Comparing two things using like or as
This woman is the first to be accused of witchcraft in The Crucible.
Who is Tituba?
Felix stages his production of The Tempest in this unusual location.
This character is the son of Sycorax and represents the theme of colonization in The Tempest.
Who is Caliban?
This junior senator from Wisconsin is the primary figure targeted by Murrow’s broadcasts in Good Night, and Good Luck.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
Writers use this technique to appeal to sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch.
What is sensory imagery?
Using a words or phrase multiple times in writing.
This character accuses Elizabeth Proctor of witchcraft, motivated by jealousy and a desire to be with John Proctor.
Who is Abigail Williams?
This character, Felix's former assistant and political rival, is the primary target of Felix’s revenge.
Who is Tony?
This daughter of Prospero falls in love with Ferdinand in the play.
Who is Miranda?
This actor, also the director of the film, plays the role of CBS producer Fred Friendly.
Who is George Clooney?
A style of writing which aims to share an opinion or ideas about a topic without persuasion.
What is discursive writing?
Using the same word or phrase at the beginning of multiple sentences.
What is anaphora?
This object given to Elizabeth by Mary Warren becomes key evidence against her during her witchcraft trial.
What is a the poppet (doll)?
One of the key themes of Hag-Seed involves this act, which Felix seeks in relation to his enemies and his past.
What is revenge?
Ferdinand, after falling in love with Miranda, is assigned this laborious task by Prospero as a test of his character.
What is carrying/stacking wood?
This award-winning actor portrayed Edward R. Murrow in the film.
Who is David Strathairn?
Margaret Atwood's speech on women in literature.
What is 'Spotty-Handed Villainesses'?
An effect of highly contrasted light and shadow.
What is chiaroscuro lighting?
This theme, central to the play, involves collective fear.
What is (mass) hysteria? Or what is paranoia?
This character in Hag-Seed symbolizes Miranda from The Tempest.
Who is Anne-Marie Greenland? Or, who is Dead Miranda?
The Tempest opens with this chaotic event that sets the play’s action in motion.
What is a storm (or shipwreck)?
The famous Murrow broadcast that addressed McCarthyism took place on this CBS news program.
What is See It Now?
The process of writing and re-writing a piece, often to edit and improve it.
What is drafting?
The omission of conjunctions in a sentence and replacing them with commas.
What is asyndeton?
This man, a respected elderly farmer, is pressed to death for refusing to enter a plea in court.
Who is Giles Corey?
The title Hag-Seed refers to this character from The Tempest and also reflects the theme of entrapment and the consequences of manipulation.
Who is Caliban?
These two comic characters plot to overthrow Prospero, encouraged by Caliban.
Who are Stephano and Trinculo?
This cultural attitude of the 1950s, associated with McCarthyism, involved accusing people of being communists without proper evidence.
What is the Red Scare?
Literary work in which the expression of feelings and ideas is given intensity by the use of distinctive style and rhythm
What is poetry?
A short quotation at the beginning of a book or chapter that is reflective of its themes.
What is an epigraph?
This type of irony is most evident when the audience knows that John Proctor’s affair is the root of Abigail’s accusations, while most of the characters remain unaware.
What is dramatic irony?
In Atwood’s novel, Felix uses this particular Shakespearean play to teach the prisoners about redemption and forgiveness.
What is The Tempest?
Prospero was overthrown as Duke of Milan by this character, his brother.
Who is Antonio?
In the film, Murrow ends many of his broadcasts with this signature phrase.
What is "Good night, and good luck"?
A self-assessment on what you did, how and why you did it, and how well you did.
What is reflective writing?
The technique of placing a copy of an image within itself, often in a way that suggests an infinitely recurring sequence.
Mise en abyme
"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life!" is said by this character during their climactic moment of moral reckoning.
Who is John Proctor?
This character plays the role of Ariel, earning himself an early release from prison.
Who is 8Handz?
At the end of The Tempest, Prospero gives up his magical powers by doing this.
What does breaking his staff represent?
The film is shot entirely in this visual style to reflect the era of the 1950s.
What is black and white?
George Orwell's key point in his 1946 speech 'Politics and the English Language'.
What is the decline of meaning in political language?
A figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in 'England lost by six wickets', where 'England' means the 'English Cricket Team'.
What is synecdoche?
This event, often considered a metaphor for the Red Scare, reflects Arthur Miller's criticism of McCarthyism.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Atwood’s novel Hag-Seed is part of this project, which aims to reimagine Shakespeare’s works in a modern context.
What is the Hogarth Shakespeare Project?
This main theme of the play explores ideas of dispossession and invasion.
What is colonialism (or decolonialism)?
This is how Murrow describes TV if it is not used properly.
What is "lights and wires in a box"?
A feature of Colum McCann's writing which blends the narrative with metatextual references to the text's own construction.
What is 'self-reflexive'?
When one sense is described using the language of another, e.g. 'his words cut the air like a dagger'.
What is synesthesia?