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Character Types
Plot Diagram
Conflict/Irony
The Crucible
Everything Else
100
The character or characters who represent/cause the main conflict.
What is the ANTAGONIST?
100
The part of the plot that introduces characters and setting along with any other info we need to understand the rest of the story.
What is the EXPOSITION?
100
Words or phrases used to suggest the opposite of their usual meaning (sometimes sarcasm).
What is VERBAL IRONY?
100
The Crucible is an allegory for what historical atrocity?
What is McCarthyism?
100
Giving non-human characters human traits.
What is PERSONIFICATION?
200
The character who must face/overcome the main conflict.
What is the PROTAGONIST?
200
The part of the plot in which the main conflict is at its highest point of tension.
What is the climax?
200
A contradiction between what a character thinks and what the audience knows to be true.
What is DRAMATIC IRONY?
200
Spring-November, 1692 in Salem, MA.
What is the SETTING of The Crucible?
200
A character type, symbol, setting or other lit. element that recurs throughout the history of literature across many cultures.
What is an ARCHETYPE?
300
A character who does not fundamentally change throughout a story.
What is a STATIC CHARACTER?
300
The part of the plot in which the main conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution?
300

Examples of this include: man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. supernatural

What is EXTERNAL CONFLICT?

300
John Proctor struggles with his own guilt and does not want to admit his lechery to the court.
What is John Proctor's INTERNAL CONFLICT?
300
The lesson or message an author wants the reader to learn from a work. Expressed as a statement of that lesson.
What is theme?
400

Main character name and character that opposes the main character

protagonist and antagonist

400
The event that sparks the main conflict.
What is the INCITING INCIDENT?
400
Events that occur which directly contradicts the expectations of the characters, the reader or the audience
What is SITUATIONAL IRONY?
400
John Proctor vs. Abigail Williams - Abigail wants John Proctor for herself, but he is married and has broken it off with her.
What is the MAIN CONFLICT of The Crucible?
400
Words or phrases that appeal to the 5 senses.
What is IMAGERY?
500
A character who fundamentally changes throughout the story.
What is a DYNAMIC CHARACTER?
500
The part of the plot in which minor conflicts are resolved.
What is the falling action?
500
A struggle in which a character must overcome something about him or herself to be successful.
What is INTERNAL CONFLICT?
500
Irrational fears can lead to mass hysteria; however, reason should prevail. Sometimes one's integrity and faith is worth dying for.
What are themes found in The Crucible?
500
The definition of literature.
What is writings in which form and expression, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features?