Vocabulary
The quality of remaining unshakable or insistent on a specific position or opinion.
What is the definition of adamant?
The character that saved Elizabeth Proctor's life in open court and gave her a poppet.
Who is Mary Warren?
The girl that leads all of the other girls in the story to cry witchcraft on innocent people.
Who is Abigail Williams?
A government ran with divine guidance or ran with religion intertwined.
The list of characters, typically in order of appearance, within a play.
What is a cast list?
What is quail?
This character is solely motivated by their reputation in the village.
Who is Reverend Parris?
The animal that all of the girls "saw" in the middle of John Proctor's trial.
What is a bird?
What is he-said-she-said or ipso facto law?
The written expression of actions that actors perform in a play.
What are stage directions?
A testimony taken down in writing under oath.
What is a deposition?
The character that was crushed to death by slabs of stone after placing suspicion on his wife.
Who is Giles Corey?
The two girls that pretended to be asleep to avoid punishment for dancing in the woods.
Who are Betty & Ruth?
The main way that people were brought into a Salem court of law, especially during the Witch Trials.
What are accusations?
The grammatical punctuation used after a character's name to separate dialogue.
What is a colon? (:)
The word used to describe the dealings and associations of trade.
What is traffick or trafficked?
This character develops throughout the story, determined to root out the Devil but eventually questions the legitimacy of the witch trials.
Who is Reverend Hale?
The woman that helped the girls perform witchcraft at the beginning of the play.
Who is Tituba?
The lead judges that control the courts and determine witches from the afflicted.
What are magistrates?
The introduction or beginning to a literary work that can reveal background information/context for the story.
What is a prologue?
The feeling or expression of regretful pain or sorrows.
What is the definition of penitent or penitence?
This woman started the Salem Witch trials by pursuing the spirits of her dead children.
Who is Mrs. Putnam?
The motivation for all of the girls to participate in the witch trials.
What is personal gain/interest?
The commandment that John Proctor fails to remember when questioned about them.
The separate sections or "chapters" within a play that pace the story.
What are Acts?