The Crucible
2 parts needed:
Arthur Miller wrote The Crucible as an ___________ for ___________.
Allegory for Communism/The Red Scare/McCarthyism/The 1950s
"I would cross a thousand oceans just to see your smile." is which figurative element?
Hyperbole
This is a paragraph in a poem.
A stanza.
"Her voice is music that soothes my soul."
Metaphor
An adventurous journey the protagonist goes on to overcome hardship and benefit from newfound knowledge is called a...
Quest
This character is the daughter of Reverend Parris.
Betty
"Love knocks on my door when I least expect it."
Personification
This is a type of story in which the author focuses on the protagonist's advancement from childhood to maturity.
Coming of age story
"The clock ticked steadily as I waited for the bell to ring."
Onomatopoeia "ticked" sounds like what it is
Where do souls go once characters have died in mythology?
The Underworld
This character is an independent thinker, who hypocritically is a hypocrite who hates hypocrites.
John Proctor
"Love is a blooming rose, delicate yet powerful. "
Metaphor.
Explain the difference between tone and mood.
Tone = The author's feelings
Mood = My (aka the reader's) feelings
"They searched for peace, they fought for peace, they died for peace."
Epistrophe
Pygmalion asks the Goddess of Love to turn his statue into a woman.
True or false?
False, he is too shy to ask Venus for that. He asks for a woman LIKE this statue.
This character is power-hungry and motivated by his own gain rather than genuine concern for the children
Thomas Putnam
"Passionate promises dot our paradise."
Alliteration
Which text structure has: Facts, events, or details are presented in the order in which they occurred in time.
Chronological
"He faced his enemies with the courage of Alexander the Great."
Allusion (historical, specifically)
In mythology, Echo is a nymph. Describe what a nymph is.
Something along the lines of a fairy. Feminine, flighty, beautiful.
This character is the "comic relief" at the start of the story, known for being hard of hearing and accusative.
Giles Corey
"Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is everlasting."
Anaphora
What is most likely to be the author's purpose of writing an article about a political candidate and the benefits of voting for them?
To persuade
The English teacher misspelled "grammar" on the whiteboard.
Irony/Ironic
An excerpt from Echo & Narcissus:
Tiresias' fame of prophecy was spread through all the cities of Aonia, for his unerring answers unto all who listened to his words.
What is a prophecy?
Prediction of the future.