The Crucible 🎭
“I’ll tell you what’s walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem.” (Act II)
Personification
"Inside every snail shell is a tiny disco ball / Disco isn't dead, instead, it turns out that it just got small" - Vulfmon & Zachary Barker
Personification & surrealism
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJQmVZSAqlc
The clip is 0:38 - the sooner you name the quote & technique, the more points you will get (no visual techniques allowed)
(mulitple)
Holy God, Holy Mighty, Holy Immortal, have mercy on us (Trisagion)
Anaphora & tricolon
"Reader, I married him." (Jane Eyre)
Direct address
"We burn a hot fire here; it melts down all concealment." (Act III)
Metaphor (& reference to the play's title)
Listen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppPTJAZnwQg&list=RDppPTJAZnwQg&start_radio=1
The song is 2:44 - the sooner you can name the lyric + technique, the more points you will get.
(multiple)
"Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." (Forrest Gump)
Simile
Christ is risen! Truly, He is risen!
Epistrophe
"Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high." (The Princess Bride)
Metaphor
"Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life." (Act IV)
--> triple points for naming 2 techniques
Anaphora
Triple point: Metonym (name = integrity, word, etc.)
"I reminisce on the stress I caused, it was hell / Huggin' on my mama from a jail cell" - Tupac
(Don't say rhyme)
Biblical allusion, juxtaposition, pathos
"I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye." (Spider-Man 3)
Threatening tone
Wonder strange and new / for the Door now passes through the Doorway, / Heaven enters Heaven; we stand in awe / as the Throne of God ascends the Throne of God!
(Dormition Lamentations)
Paradox
"...Always winter, but never Christmas." (The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe)
Symbolism
"You misunderstand, sir; I cannot pardon these when twelve are already hanged for the same crime. It is not just." (Act IV)
Irony
"Did the twin flame bruise paint you blue?" - Taylor Swift
4 answers. 400 points for each one you get.
1) Metaphors - twin flame & bruise
2) Bilabial consonance - /m/, /b/, /p/
3) Synesthesia + 4) personification - bruise paint you blue (visual + tactile)
"You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't about how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward" (Rocky VI)
4 answers. Extra 100 points for each additional
Personification - life hitting
Metaphor - life's challenges compared to hits in a fight
Colloquial language
Chiasmus
"He Who hung the earth upon the waters is hung upon the Tree...He Who wraps the heavens in clouds is wrapped in the purple of mockery." (Antiphon 15, Holy Thursday)
Parallelism
“We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.” (Persuasion)
Personification
"[With great fear]: I will fear nothing." (Act II)
Contrast between dialogue and stage directions, irony
"If I get to heaven I'll look for / Grandma's hands" - Bill Withers
Synecdoche
Metaphor & aphorism
"Come you children, listen to me, I will teach you the fear of the Lord. Alleluia" (Psalm 33)
Direct address & imperative verb
"It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen." (1984)
Double points for naming both
Oxymoron - bright cold day
Defamiliarization - Clocks striking thirteen