Literary Devices
Giving inanimate objects and other phenomena human traits.
What is personification?
A game played between two teams of five players in which goals are scored by throwing a ball through a netted hoop fixed above each end of the court.
What is basketball?
What were Abigail and the girls doing in the forest when Reverend Parris saw them?
The girls were dancing and some of them were not wearing clothes. There was a frog in the pot and Tituba was chanting. The girls were dancing and some of them were not wearing clothes.
Occurs in a literary text when the author gives clues and hints about what is to come in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
What is football?
Why is Parris so worried about the evidence of witchcraft being discovered in his own house?
Parris wants to remain minister and fears any evidence that may harm his reputation.
A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.
What is a metaphor?
A game played by two teams of eleven players with a round ball that may not be touched with the hands or arms during play except by the goalkeepers. The object of the game is to score goals by kicking or heading the ball into the opponents' goal.
What is soccer?
What does Rebecca Nurse think is wrong with the girls?
She thinks that the girls are faking witchcraft to get attention.
The formation of a word from a sound associated with what is named.
What is onomatopoeia?
An activity involving physical exertion and skill in which an individual or team competes against another or others for entertainment.
Why is Mrs. Putnam so eager to prove there is witchcraft in the village?
She has lost all but one of her children shortly after they were born and wants someone to blame.
A figure of speech in which apparently contradictory terms appear in conjunction.
What is an oxymoron?
A team game played with an oval ball that may be kicked, carried, and passed from hand to hand. Points are scored by grounding the ball behind the opponents' goal line (thereby scoring a try) or by kicking it between the two posts and over the crossbar of the opponents' goal.
What is rugby?
What is the source of the conflict between Parris and Proctor?
Proctor questions Parris's beliefs and morals. He sees that Parris is more concerned with keeping his position as minister than with practicing his true religion and devotion to God.